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Package request: lsb_release with name corrected
Project description
There is an existing package for lsb_release but it is incorrectly named "lsb-release". Note the dash (-) instead of an underscore (_). This led me on a wild goose chase trying to figure out why, even though the package exists, I kept getting " error: undefined variable 'lsb_release' " on attempt to rebuild.
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Duplicate the contents of pkgs/os-specific/linux/lsb-release
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Can you explain what you're trying to do? The package follows our naming conventions.
Sorry, maybe I'm wrong here. Often, the name of the package is the same as the name of the program it's meant to install, so I was sure it was by accident that the package name uses a dash while the program name uses an underscore. It's a subtle difference that took me a long time to notice when I was trying to add lsb_release to my configuration (I kept adding "lsb_release" which does not exist. I should have added "lsb-release").
My thinking with this request was to leave the existing package as-is so as not to break anybody's configuration, but add another where the package has the exact same name as the program (with an underscore).
If I'm mistaken and there's a good reason for the difference, then apologies for the erroneous request. Maybe instead it would be helpful to highlight the subtle difference in the package description?
Generally we normalize package names to replace capital letters by lower cased ones and special characters with dashes.
You can find packages via the search https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&query=lsb_release
