Hi all

currently I operate one server with devuan beowulf and
2 Notebooks with debian buster.
Migration is pending to devuan, as soon as a necessity arises, e.g. buster is becoming oldstable.
    Off Topic : the necessity has arisen now, as systemd produces huge logfiles, 0,9 GByte in 10 hours worth of log,
    thens hold only last 10 hours due to space limitations (keeps 10% free). These json-logs are a mess, except for illiterates.

I Noted that /etc/debian_version on the debian driven notebooks is at 10.7 , but on the devuan server it is still at 10.0

There are a number of files which contain info about the actual status of the installation

but the info in debian-basefiles, is misleading, as the system is uptodate otherwise.

Debian :
lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:    Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:    10
Codename:    buster
cat /etc/debian_version
10.7
aptitude show base-files
Package: base-files
Version: 10.3+deb10u7
Essential: yes
State: installed
...
Description: Debian base system miscellaneous files
...
devuan :
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Debian
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:    3
Codename:    beowulf
cat /etc/debian_version
10.0

While the system is up to date,
debian_version is misleading.
This is more a bug than a feature.
It takes some digging to see that.
The referencing to debian is not consistent.
Better the file /etc/debian_version is missing @devuan than it is wrong.

Change log for base-files package in Debian

base-files (10.3+deb10u7) buster; urgency=medium

* Change /etc/debian_version to 10.7, for Debian 10.7 point release.

-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@???> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:37:00 +0100

base-files (10.3+deb10u6) buster; urgency=medium

* Change /etc/debian_version to 10.6, for Debian 10.6 point release.

-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@???> Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:39:00 +0200

Change log for base-files package in Devuan

Änderungen
#21 (20.04.2020 16:24:04)

     Release beowulf: remove ceres from /etc/devuan_version. — leepen / detail
     d/control: add myself to uploaders. — leepen / detail
     Changelog for version 10.3+devuan3.4. — leepen / detail

#20 (28.03.2020 13:43:48)

     Revert to ID=devuan in /etc/os-release (Closes: #411). — leepen / detail
     Changelog for version 11+devuan2. — leepen / detail

#19 (23.02.2020 15:22:12)

     Add Debian as parent in origins/devuan. — parazyd / detail

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mit freundlichen Grüßen
with the beste regards

cordialement

Erich |\/|inderlei|\|
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