Bug#1002831: ITP: lsb-release-minimal -- minimal shell implementation of lsb_release

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2021, Gioele Barabucci wrote:

> Instead of using LSB packages, this version of `lsb_release` uses the
> information in `/etc/os-release`. Nevertheless, the output of this version is

/etc/os-release DOES NOT contain enough information for lsb_release:

(sid-amd64)tglase at tglase:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

I do have a self-written…

$ cat /usr/lib/os-release.sid
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux sid"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
VERSION_ID=unstable
VERSION_CODENAME=sid

… which I divert to /usr/lib/os-release (which /etc/os-release is
a symlink to) on some systems, ever since lsb_release broke looking
up the override information from /etc/lsb-release, but the default
file is insufficient ☹

bye,
//mirabilos
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