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lsb-release for Debian
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NB: These notes are intended for anyone building a derived distribution using
this package.  They are not likely to be helpful to end-users.

This is Debian's implementation of the lsb_release command.
Distribution-specific information should be *separately provided* in
/usr/lib/os-release; it is provided by the base-files package.

The file should be formatted as a series of quoted shell variable assignments.
You should not assume this file is actually parsed by a Bourne shell (i.e., no
fancy stuff).  Example:

PRETTY_NAME="(A human-readable description of the release)"
NAME="(The standard name of the distribution)"
VERSION_ID="(The release number)"
VERSION="(The release number + codename)"
ID="(distributor id)"

Any other variable assignments will be silently ignored.  For Debian
10.0 (buster), it might have read:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

 -- Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:21:37 +0100