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#1 2019-06-23 05:40:53

Askannz
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Suggestion : add lsb-release to the dependencies of the steam package

Hi,

I hope it's the right forum category for these kinds of requests, apologies if it isn't.

I'd like to suggest adding the package lsb-release to the dependencies of the steam package. Although it isn't required to launch Steam and play games, not having this package installed causes Steam to not properly detect the current Linux distribution in its hardware report. To test this, open Steam, go to Help -> System Information and scroll to "Operating System Version".

Without lsb-release, the distribution name is "Linux (64-bit)" which is fixed to "Arch Linux (64-bit)" when lsb-release is installed.

This might seem like a minor inconvenience but it's causing headaches for websites which rely on the system info provided by Steam, like protondb.com or the Steam website itself : if you go to https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/, you'll see that the second most popular distro is a generic "Linux (64-bit)" (note that there may also be some snap/flatpak shenanigans going on here).

What are your thoughts on this ?

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#2 2019-06-23 06:18:50

jasonwryan
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Re: Suggestion : add lsb-release to the dependencies of the steam package

Feature requests belong on the bug tracker...


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#3 2019-06-23 10:10:33

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Re: Suggestion : add lsb-release to the dependencies of the steam package

Valve can fix it by reading os-release.


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#4 2019-06-25 00:36:11

Askannz
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Re: Suggestion : add lsb-release to the dependencies of the steam package

jasonwryan wrote:

Feature requests belong on the bug tracker...

Apologies then, I'll send it there.

WorMzy wrote:

Valve can fix it by reading os-release.

Valve does not officially support Archlinux. We can try asking of course, but it seems silly when all that's needed on our side is to install a 17Kb package.

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#5 2019-06-26 13:02:22

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Re: Suggestion : add lsb-release to the dependencies of the steam package

Askannz wrote:
WorMzy wrote:

Valve can fix it by reading os-release.

Valve does not officially support Archlinux.

os-release is not Arch specific. It's mandated by systemd since... *checks* 2012.


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