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#65
base-files: /etc/debian_version exists after migrating from debian
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bug#65; Package base-files.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: base-files
Version: 8+devuan7
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
after upgrading from debian wheezy to devuan jessie, /etc/debian_version still exists with the contents "7.11". This file is apparently still referenced somewhere when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. This issue is discussed at:
<https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20170418.054720.34c2db04.en.html>
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* What led up to the situation?
Migrating from debian wheezy to devuan jessie.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Leaving the file in place seems to cause no harm. Removing it causes the message "cat /etc/debian_version: no such file or directory" to appear when running apt-get dist-upgrade. Fresh installs of devuan don't have a /etc/debian_version, and don't exhibit this problem.
* What was the outcome of this action?
See above.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
No /etc/debian_version should exist after migrating to devuan, and the lack of this file shouldn't produce error messages when running apt-get dist-upgrade.
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-- System Information:
Architecture: i686
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/debian_version f627c6a8a6325d8f495a49568e4b2a79 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/debian_version f627c6a8a6325d8f495a49568e4b2a79'
/etc/dpkg/origins/debian 731423fa8ba067262f8ef37882d1e742 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/dpkg/origins/debian 731423fa8ba067262f8ef37882d1e742'
/etc/issue changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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bug#65; Package base-files.
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Message #10 received at 65@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: base-files
FYI: /etc/debian_version exists in Xubuntu-14.04. It says "jessie/sid".
I don't think it's a bad idea to leave that file in place if we are
tracking a particular version of Debian.
fsmithred
Tags added: jessie
Request was from KatolaZ <katolaz@freaknet.org>
to control@bugs.devuan.org.
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Reply sent to Evilham <devuan@evilham.com>:
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Notification sent to Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net>:
bug acknowledged by developer.
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Message #17 received at 65-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
/etc/debian_version seems to be here to stay in the near future, other
Debian derivatives have it as well as a way of documenting the Debian
version that is being tracked.
/etc/devuan_version will be "X.Y" for stable releases and
"CODENAME/ceres" for testing/unstable.
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