Devuan bug report logs - #873
What's the use without 'devuan-distro-info'?

Package: distro-info; Reported by: J�rgen A. Erhard <[email protected]>; dated Sat, 4 Jan 2025 01:28:01 UTC; Maintainer for distro-info is (unknown).

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Subject: Re: bug#873: What's the use without 'devuan-distro-info'?
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J�rgen,

Thanks for this.

On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 02:25:45AM +0100, J�rgen A. Erhard wrote:
> I see that it requires a 'devuan-distro-info' binary, which is
> missing, even distro-info-data does have data for Devuan.
> 
> So, what's the point?  What am I missing?

Nothing really. I suppose since /usr/share/distro-info/devuan.csv from
distro-info-data is pretty easy to use and parse, nobody has written
devuan-distro-info in C.

Mark

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Package: distro-info
Version: 1.7
Severity: normal

Just noticed this.  Tried --devel, --stable, but they all only return
Debian's codenames.  

I see that it requires a 'devuan-distro-info' binary, which is
missing, even distro-info-data does have data for Devuan.

So, what's the point?  What am I missing?


-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)
Release:	6
Codename:	excalibur ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.8.9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages distro-info depends on:
ii  distro-info-data  0.63devuan1
ii  libc6             2.38-13

distro-info recommends no packages.

Versions of packages distro-info suggests:
pn  shunit2  <none>

-- no debconf information

Acknowledgement sent to Jürgen A. Erhard <[email protected]>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected]. Full text available.
Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected]:
bug#873; Package distro-info. Full text available.

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