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Tristan
Asked: 2016-09-22 00:11:20 +0800 CST

Wrong release number for Debian "7" instead of 8 information

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I upgraded to Jessie last recently and when doing a lsb_release -a it reports that the release is 7 (instead of 8) and codename Jessie.

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I did an update && upgrade && dist-upgrade when all sources point to jessie but no updates are available.

Another server I recently upgraded reports release 8 and Codename Jessie.

How can I fix this wrong information reported inside Release number ? Thanks

debian debian-jessie

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I got the same problem.

    The 7 come from /etc/lsb-release :

    DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7
DISTRIB_CODENAME=
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=

    However, it seems /etc/lsb-release file does not exist anymore in any package, but it has been kept back (I did not find any reported bug about it).

    So just removed it:

    rm /etc/lsb-release

    lsb_release -a will so use /etc/os-release instead, which contains the good informations.

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