Ubuntu
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Psi version string presents as "Debian testing/unstable" on Dapper

Bug #66940 reported by davee on 2006-10-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	psi (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Luke Yelavich

Bug Description

Binary package hint: psi

Psi under Dapper presents a version string of "0.10: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable". This should probably be something Ubuntu-specific.

Looking at the source, in src/common.cpp Psi determines its OS and flavour by looking for various pertinent 'version' files on the system, i.e. /etc/debian_version, /etc/redhat-release and /etc/gentoo-release and so on. It finds that /etc/debian_version exists on the system and assumes it's running on Debian.

To present the correct version string under Ubuntu, I guess it would need to look at /etc/lsb-release.

I'm unclear whether this is really an Ubuntu bug, or whether it should be fixed upstream. I could supply a patch for this if required, although it really would be extremely trivial.

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davee (davee-sungate) wrote on 2006-10-19:

http://flyspray.psi-im.org/task/420 - just spotted this (not-yet-implemented) upstream enhancement to Psi which uses lsb_release to determine the OS/flavour. Given that it returns sensible values under Ubuntu:

$ lsb_release --id --codename --release --short
Ubuntu
6.06
dapper

if this change is incorporated into Psi, Ubuntu will be present in the version string issued by Psi.

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davee (davee-sungate) wrote on 2006-10-27:

Further comment, just to clarify/update: Psi in Edgy (version 0.10-2ubuntu2) has the above symptoms: the version string presents as "Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable)".

William Grant (wgrant) on 2007-03-14

Changed in psi:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

deadwill (deadwill-deactivatedaccount) on 2007-08-01

Changed in psi:
assignee:	nobody → xxxxx1
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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deadwill (deadwill-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-08-01:

Thanks for your bug report Dave. Btw, the task as you'd mentioned is not useful since it's just an script and cannot be adopted in Psi. I'm working on a implementation on latest Psi development version in svn repos.

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deadwill (deadwill-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-08-09:

screenshot.jpg Edit (52.5 KiB, image/jpeg)

For the love of Ubuntu :)
... I've added some code to Psi 0.10 to support lsb versioning. check the shot!

I'm doing the work on package now.

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deadwill (deadwill-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-08-09:

psi_0.10-2ubuntu3.debdiff.gz Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain)

done! \o/ debdiff as attachment.

Changed in psi:
assignee:	xxxxx1 → nobody
status:	In Progress → Confirmed

Luke Yelavich (themuso) on 2007-08-16

Changed in psi:
assignee:	nobody → themuso
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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deadwill (deadwill-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-08-16:

psi (0.10-2ubuntu3) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Add dpatch support in debian/control and debian/rules.
  * Add patches/01_lsb_version.dpatch (LP: #66940).
  * Change Maintainer/XSBC-Original-Maintainer field.

-- William Lima <email address hidden> Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:01:48 -0300