[Popcon-developers] Bug#238687: Submit Debian release and subarchs
Falk Hueffner
falk at debian.org
Sun Feb 19 12:38:35 UTC 2006
Hi,
I'd like to lobby again for the inclusion of my patch at
http://bugs.debian.org/238687 again, which reports Alpha
subarchitectures and the Debian version. The motivation is to decide
whether to drop ev4 or ev56 support. The objections were:
* Subarchitecture information should come from another package. Well,
there is no such package right now, and it seems silly to start one
containing 10 lines of code. Moreover, I would prefer, as a matter
of principle, to only report information we are sure is needed for
some concrete decision.
* /etc/debian_version is unreliable. However, I don't think the
percentage of users actively setting their /etc/debian_version to
something bogus is that high, so it would be still useful.
It would be nice to get some more opinions on this...
--
Falk
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