Drop UBUNTU_CODENAME from /etc/os-release. Use VERSION_CODENAME instead
Bug #2065040 reported by
Benjamin Drung
This bug affects 1 person
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base-files (Ubuntu) |
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snapd (Ubuntu) |
New
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Bug #1520154 introduced UBUNTU_CODENAME, but the final name that landed in the os-release specification is VERSION_CODENAME. Ubuntu specifies VERSION_CODENAME since Ubuntu 16.04 "xenial" (see bug #1598212).
So let's finally drop UBUNTU_CODENAME from os-release starting with Ubuntu 24.10 "oracular".
Marking snapd as affected since it uses UBUNTU_CODENAME in some files in tests/.
summary: |
- Drop UBUNTU_CODENAME from /etc/os-release + Drop UBUNTU_CODENAME from /etc/os-release. Use VERSION_CODENAME instead |
tags: | added: rls-oo-incoming |
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The UBUNTU_CODENAME field is very useful to keep things like PPAs and third-party integrations working with downstream distributions, such that I don't think it makes sense to remove that and break them.