Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

Re: Luca Boccassi
> The TL;DR is a request to override the base-files maintainer, and
> enable moving os-release into a new, independent and separate source
> package, so that these bugs may finally be fixed, and Debian's os-
> release may finally be made compliant with the specification.

If we are fixing that, we should also fix /etc/debian_version in the
same way. I've always been wondering why we don't put better content
into these files.

(Though I'm not sure the ruling should include the "move to new source
package" part. It could also be fixed inside base-files.)

Christoph