[Bug 1598212] Re: /etc/os-release: Please specify VERSION_CODENAME

[Steve Langasek]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted base-files into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/9.4ubuntu4.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  /etc/os-release: Please specify VERSION_CODENAME

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in base-files source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in base-files package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  [ SRU Justification ]
  UBUNTU_CODENAME was added by the snapd team, then proposed upstream in a more generic way.  Upstream settled on VERSION_CODENAME, and we should include that as well, in case third party (or, indeed, future versions of our own) software decide to start looking for it.

  [ SRU Test Case ]
  Check diffs of both source package and installed os-release, make sure nothing's changed except VERSION_CODENAME, and that the value is correct.

  [ Regression Potential ]
  Nein.

  [ Original Report ]
  The os-release specification was updated in systemd > 230 to also include a VERSION_CODENAME parameter: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/646b997c118e261c5ececc434dd40d0dbdbac4d8

  Please replace the custom UBUNTU_CODENAME parameter by
  VERSION_CODENAME in yakkety and add VERSION_CODENAME to /etc/os-
  release to all stable releases.

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