On 04/16/2018 04:39 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
But this file was designed to be simply sourced. It is faster than running grep or sed on it. So was SuSE-release -- but it disappeared :( SuSE-release contained the following information for almost_FIVE YEARS_ (Since Nov 2013)
"# /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead"
This notice has been carried in every single openSUSE release since (and including) 13.1
4 years is more than enough notice for a deprecation warning, can you please stop complaining?
You miss the point. It's not a complaint. Don't re-characterize it as such. It was a curiosity. While there was no mystery that SuSE-release would go away at some point -- the point was Why now? As you, it had carried a notice since 13.1, e.g. 14:42 alchemy:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead So we have a deprecation notice of removal and some unspecified date in the future. So then 13.2 comes and goes, along with 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, all containing the same notice. Thus the curiosity -- why now? The move to os-release has been resolved, but that leaves unanswered the import of dropping it with 15. I don't disagree with dropping it, I merely posed the question of whether it made sense to continue to carry it for the very reason that cropped up here. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org