[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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