[manjaro-dev] Please add version information about Manjaro into /usr/lib/os-release

[Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig]

Am 08.05.20 um 21:36 schrieb Jonathon Fernyhough:
> On 08/05/2020 19:57, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote:
>> Please add 'VERSION',
>> 'VERSION_ID' and 'VERSION_CODENAME'.
>>
>> The file is in the package "core/filesystem"
>>
>>
>
> What's the rationale for this?
>
> Once the distro is installed those tags have very little meaning to a
> rolling release.
>

The data is already in /etc/lsb-release.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.0
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Lysia
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

So why is this information in
/etc/lsb-release?

The developers of kinfocenter
do not want to include this obsolete data
and are asking for this data
to be included, it has to be stored
in /usr/lib/os-release.

They do not want to change
kinfocenter to include old LSB data.

You say that version tags have very
little meaning in a rolling release
distribution like Manjaro.

What do other people think about this?

Sorry for bothering you,
I just wanted to improve kinfocenter
a bit on Manjaro.

Kind Regards

Gerold