[patch icedtea/openjdk] print more accurate information about the distribution

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Tue Mar 11 13:51:28 PDT 2008



Matthias Klose wrote:
> Ubuntu doesn't use (and therefore doesn't change) /etc/debian_version, but uses
> lsb_release for more accurate information about the running distribution.  Allow
> to read /etc/lsb-release (which has a list of key/value pairs before trying to
> read /etc/debian_version.
> 
> However the file /etc/lsb-release is not standardized, forwarded this to
> lsb-discuss at lists.linux-foundation.org.
> 
> ok to checkin?

I am not sure about this. Can someone else comment?

Lillian



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