On 11/26/2013 03:24 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 04:30 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 26/11/13 04:21, Per Jessen escribió:
I just noticed this comment in 13.1 - whoever it is that is deprecating /etc/SuSE-release, please be aware of the many third-party tools that rely on it. At the very least keep /etc/SuSE-release as a symlink to /etc/os-release.
This third party tools are broken..;)
Yes, but they aren't being upgraded, for instance because they are really mostly meant for SLES.
We've seen such comment before :-(
Main difference however is, that tools like lsb_release, are producing reliable output for already a fair number of releases, at least 11.x So people or other 3rd parties had quite enough time to adjust.
The user is stuck when the 3rd party tools aren't being updated though. But I know, in this distro we don't care much about our poor users :-(
I disagree, we do care. You could also make the same statement about the third-party tools that still use this SuSE-release. They had plenty of time to adjust to using lsb_release for example, and they'll have plenty of time to adjust to using os-release. More likely than not they will not adjust until the file actually goes away. Making changes pre-actively is not necessarily a common practice, unfortunately. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org