The great leap backward

Posted Apr 26, 2017 19:25 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: The great leap backward

What is funny is if Debian decided than the next stable release would be Debian 3.9 (as it should be!), then absolutely nothing would break (which according to Jon logic implies than the amount of discussion would be larger) because the Debian version is not used anywhere important.

The great leap backward

Posted Apr 27, 2017 13:34 UTC (Thu) by danielkza (subscriber, #66161) [Link]

I would bet you there are thousands of scripts of all kinds out there that rely on the Debian version number, even if they are not part of the distribution itself. One just has to browse the most popular configuration management modules for software such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible to find checks that use comparisons such as `distribution_version > 7` to determine if a Debian system should have a particular package available, or whether systemd or SysV init scripts should be installed.