Bug#711174: base-files: changes in 7.1wheezy1 break lsb-release on stable

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Hi Marc, hi Santiago,

Le mercredi, 5 juin 2013 11.00:06, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> reassign 711174 lsb-release
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Marc Fournier wrote:
> > Upgrading from 7.1 to 7.1wheezy1 (from wheezy-proposed-updates) breaks
> > the codename returned by lsb_release. "n/a" is returned instead of
> > "wheezy".
> > 
> > This is a nuisance because everything depending on lsb to identify the
> > system release by codename instead of version number is also broken.

Good catch, thanks!

> This is not a bug in base-files but a bug in lsb-release, the changes
> in base-files are the result of the stable release managers decision
> that Debian wheezy will be just "Debian 7".

That's news for me, but I guess lsb_release is one of the few things we should 
have tested more thouroughly with base-files "as it would be in stable". Oh 
well.

> I'm afraid that lsb-release will have to adapt to this change, but
> since the "Debian 7" is already decided, I suppose you guys have an
> implicit permission to fix this for the Debian 7.1 point release.
> 
> You will probably want to change RELEASE_CODENAME_LOOKUP in
> /usr/share/pyshared/lsb_release.py and maybe lookup_codename as well.

Thanks for the hints; I have just uploaded a fix for that to unstable and will 
followup with the stable release managers to get that fixed in Wheezy too.

Cheers,

OdyX

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