Use VERSION_ID instead of VERSION field for platform version #44
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VERSION
can include release code name, whereasVERSION_ID
is a simplified identifier containing no spaces (i.e.VERSION="17 (Beefy Miracle)"
,VERSION_ID=17
). This makes it much more useful for programmatic usage (specifically, for using version as part of a file path).If we want the codename in the future, we could always get that from
VERSION_CODENAME
and return that separately.Edit: This only affects platform information read from the
/etc/os-release
file. When platform data is read from/etc/lsb-release
(the default location), we get the version information from theDISTRIB_RELEASE
field, which is already in this simplified format.