PSI and Ubuntu promotion

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:35:49AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 09:06 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> >  Im using Jabber as my IM. (opi [at] chrome.pl;-) My client of chooice
> > is PSI, witch Im downloaded and installed on Ubuntu aswell. As you may
> > know, you can connect to your Jabber accound from serval places. Im
> > leaving my session at work and pop up from time to time at my place.
> > But I noticed something strage. PSI can broadcast/get OS that someone
> > on your list is using. So it's Debian 3.1 at work, it was Slackware
> > 10.0 at home and now, when Im moved to Ubuntu, it's Debian
> > testing/unstable
> 
> Seems to me as bug in base-files?  So /etc/debian_version includes
> testing/unstable?

This was semi-deliberate, since we're a branch of Debian unstable. We
also include /etc/lsb-release, which has more precise information about
the OS. If they don't do so already (they should), software packages
should be modified to check /etc/lsb-release before /etc/debian_version.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]