<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hello, I have tried to search the archives of this mailing list for "CODENAME" but that searched the entire freedesktop.org site... Anyway, at the danger that this has been discussed before, I'd like to make this Proposal: Add CODENAME as an officially described field to /etc/os-release. Its value would be the release code name, for human consumption. It would be optional. If not specified, it would have no default. Justification: The benefit of adding this field is that this is the only information from other release files that is still missing from /etc/os-release (compared to the output of the lsb_release command, ignoring LSB compliance information for the moment, and compared to the older one-line distro release files). Therefore, this helps with the migration from these other file formats to /etc/os-release. Alternatives considered: According to the description of extension fields in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html</a>, a field with this name should not be added by OS vendors as an extension field, because the highly recommended convention for extension field names is to prefix them with an OS specific name. So the alternative of a distro specific extension field is not good for this purpose, and the only reasonable option is to have a standard field. Comments? Andy </body> </html>