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

Hi,

On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote:

> This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we
> are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial technical
> problem with a hard social conflict at its core. What we are really
> blocked on is that the current owner of os-release refuses to let us
> fix it.
This is an unfair and inaccurate summary. The policy question of "should 
testing and unstable be differentiated by os-release" isn't 
straightforward, and there isn't consensus that the answer should be 
"yes", as you would like it to be.

Debian's current (and long-standing) answer to that question is "no", 
and my view is that you have not advanced a sufficiently compelling case 
that this answer should be changed.

Regards,

Matthew