Debian Developers - Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is

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Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is

Santiago Vila

2007-05-30, 7:21 pm

Hi.

I believe there is something fundamentally wrong if you *have* to rely
on /etc/debian_version for anything. The number of Debian packages
actually using such file is probably zero (but I could be wrong).

Try using dependencies or run-time tests. Really.

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