support for Ubuntu devel (rolling)

[laniusone]

I know that current devel (kinetic) is technically supported, but when installing it via Rolling Rhino Remix ISO, resulting codename is 'devel' and not 'kinetic', so the script doesn't recognize the distribution. I added a tiny fix to the case statement.

[natanjunges]

Please provide the output of:

cat /etc/lsb-release
cat /etc/os-release

[laniusone]

/bin/cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=devel
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Kinetic Kudu (development branch)"

/bin/cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Rolling Rhino Remix"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.10"
VERSION="22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)"
VERSION_CODENAME=devel
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.rollingrhino.org"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=devel
LOGO=ubuntu-logo

[natanjunges]

This distribution really does not follow the standards from neither Debian nor Ubuntu. It could be argued if we should even bother supporting those distributions, since the whole purpose of using those standards is not having to deal with each case individually. But as the required changes are not so big, I guess it is fine.

[laniusone]

Ok, thank you! I will create an issue in their repo anyway, so that they fix it, because I guess it should follow the standards, as technically it is just the devel branch of kinetic with some extra tools.

[natanjunges]

Actually, thinking about the implications of the change you propose, unless the distribution changes its /etc/os-release file, it might be impractical to support it. UPSTREAM_CODENAME should only be the codename of a release of either Debian or Ubuntu, since the functions for the packages rely on that. And the UBUNTU_CODENAME field in /etc/os-release should only be the codename of a release of Ubuntu (hence the name), and VERSION_CODENAME should be used for custom codenames such as this one.

[laniusone]

I actually agree that this should be fixed on the distro-side, so I'm closing this.