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system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #434565
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 434565

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

OK, thanks for the debugging. I've just upgraded to Karmic, and I can now confirm the problem.

Attached is an improved version of the patch currently shipped as 01_debian_4.0.patch. It makes detection of Debian-based systems even more standard, using /etc/lsb-release so that we are not confused by the version from /etc/debian_version. That was the cause if the problem in Karmic. With the new patch, Ubuntu is assumed to work as Debian everywhere, which I believe is correct. Versioning is removed, which is already what the original patch did.

To packagers: I could commit that fix or something similar upstream since it cleans the mess that distro detection has become, and should not affect other distributions. Then I can release a 2.8.2 minor release including this, plus two other fixes. Does this scenario fit your needs, or do you prefer updating the patch only in Ubuntu?