Bug#914287: marked as done (lsb-release: please parse /usr/lib/os-release and deprecate /etc/lsb-release)

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From: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
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Subject: lsb-release: please parse /usr/lib/os-release and deprecate
 /etc/lsb-release
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Package: lsb-release
Version: 9.20170808
Severity: wishlist

Debian's Python implementation of the LSB-standardized lsb_release
command parses various sources of data, including the non-standardized
configuration file /etc/lsb-release. That file doesn't exist in Debian,
but is typically shipped in base-files by derivatives. It is not "API"
itself, although packages designed for Ubuntu sometimes treat it as
though it was.

systemd defines a new "API", which has been adopted in Debian even
for non-systemd systems: the /usr/lib/os-release file (formerly
/etc/os-release, which is now a symlink). This "API" is defined in terms
of parsing a text file, not running a Python program, so it's much faster
to use.

If lsb_release looked at /usr/lib/os-release, then derivatives could edit
that file and /etc/dpkg/origins/default (which they need to do anyway)
and wouldn't usually need to add /etc/lsb-release. /usr/lib/os-release
uses the same subset of shell syntax as /etc/lsb-release.

The fields are:

lsb_release -r, --release: e.g. "9.6"
    /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_RELEASE

    This appears to be os-release's optional VERSION_ID (not VERSION,
    for which the example given in the man page includes a Fedora release
    codename as well as the bare version number), except that stretch's
    os-release just says "9", not "9.6". For the sorts of uses people
    make of lsb_release (for example gating features that should only be
    enabled in newer Debian), I think it would probably make most sense
    for this to be 10 for the whole lifetime of buster, ignoring point
    releases?  Or it could preferentially come from /etc/debian_version,
    which would retain the minor version.

lsb_release -c, --codename: e.g. "stretch"
    /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_CODENAME

    This is exactly os-release's optional VERSION_CODENAME.

lsb_release -i, --id: e.g. "Debian" or "Ubuntu"
    /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID
    /etc/dpkg/origins/default Vendor

    There is no direct equivalent in os-release (ID is "debian", NAME is
    "Debian GNU/Linux", neither of which matches) but /etc/dpkg/origins
    should be sufficient to not need /etc/lsb-release; using os-release
    ID, possibly transformed to title-case, might be a good fallback.

lsb_release -d, --description: e.g. "Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)"
    /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION
    Fallback is "${ID} ${OS} ${RELEASE} (${CODENAME})"

    os-release PRETTY_NAME looks suitable for this. It can include the
    OS vendor, version number and/or codename. One difference is that
    stretch has PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)", without the
    9.6; but I don't think that's a very important distinction, so it
    might make most sense for $(lsb_release -ds) in the buster release
    to be "Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" across all point releases.

Regards,
    smcv

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Subject: Bug#914287: fixed in lsb 10.2018112800
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:49:38 +0000

Source: lsb
Source-Version: 10.2018112800

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lsb, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:21:37 +0100
Source: lsb
Binary: lsb-base lsb-release
Architecture: source
Version: 10.2018112800
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian LSB Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Didier Raboud <[email protected]>
Description:
 lsb-base   - Linux Standard Base init script functionality
 lsb-release - Linux Standard Base version reporting utility
Closes: 914287
Changes:
 lsb (10.2018112800) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Remove support for /etc/lsb-release in favour of /usr/lib/os-release
     (Closes: #914287)
   * Rephrase lsb-release's README.Debian
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   * Packaging cleanup
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     - Drop obsolete X-Python3-Version from d/control
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