Re: [H-source-users] Debian version at h-node

[Antonio Gallo]

Ok this is right, better give the possibility to specify unstable or
testing and to have the risk to give more details rather than less

Antonio

Il giorno ven, 16/05/2014 alle 14.57 -0400, John Sullivan ha scritto:
> address@hidden (Michał Masłowski) writes:
> 
> >>> Testing and unstable have no VERSION_ID in /etc/os_release.  We could
> >>> have a "debian" code for them (due to the above naming: no version) and
> >>> rely on the kernel/driver version numbers.  It would be like Parabola.
> >>
> >> Do you suggest to use the code "debian" for both testing and unstable?
> >
> > Packages usually are moved from unstable to testing.  I think there
> > isn't much value in knowing if if a device worked with testing or
> > unstable several months ago: one field might be enough.  For other uses,
> > kernel/driver version info should be sufficient, so users find which
> > stable versions or backports are supported.
> >
> > Maybe our Debian users have more experience that would help here.
> 
> It seems valuable to me -- I assume a device is listed with all of the
> codes it's been tested with. After several months, a device will
> probably have both unstable and testing codes on it. But until then,
> it's useful to know that it's only been tested with unstable. 
> 
> Ultimately, it's almost surely the kernel version that matters, so
> keeping track of distro versions at all is a little roundabout -- but we
> do it that way to make things simpler for users and contributors.
> 
> If we don't have the unstable code, what do contributors using unstable
> say?
> 
> -john
>