Request 1094737: Submit 000release-packages

Overview

Request 1094737 revoked

Append VERSION_ID to the PRETTY_NAME variable, in os-release

Created by luc14n0 12 months ago
In state revoked
Package maintainers: repo-checker and staging-bot
Open review for factory-staging

Submit 000release-packages

Comments for request 1094737 5

Luciano Santos (luc14n0) - 12 months ago

I wonder if this spec file is auto generated/tweaked by some bot.

Luciano Santos (luc14n0) - 12 months ago

author

Let's see what fails.

Luciano Santos (luc14n0) - 12 months ago

author

The source services shuffled a lot of things around. If that's unwanted, I'll re-sub.

Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) - 12 months ago

I don't think Version id has any business in the pretty name field.

Feels strange to 'rename' the distro every day

Luciano Santos (luc14n0) - 11 months ago

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Well, (stable) distros usually have some form of NAME + VERSION/VERSION_ID combined. Here's Leap, for instance:

leap-container $ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="15.5"
ID="opensuse-leap"
ID_LIKE="suse opensuse"
VERSION_ID="15.5"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.5"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.5"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Leap"

So, software like gnome-control-center (its About pane) show PRETTY_NAME, if available:

  if (pretty_name)
    return g_steal_pointer (&pretty_name);
  else if (name && version_id)
    return g_strdup_printf ("%s %s", name, version_id);
  else
    return g_strdup (_("Unknown"));

I think it would be beneficial for us to show the snapshot version the user's Tumbleweed system is (on the About pane) and I'm trying to figure out the best approach / how feasible this would be: to tweak os-release or possibly gnome-control-center.

"Feels strange to 'rename' the distro every day"

Hmm, it'd fit Tumbleweed's nature well, the ever changing distro, wouldn't it? :^P

Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) - 12 months ago

And yes - 000release-packages is auto generated. The leading package which would need to be changed is 000package-groups