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Title:
  update /etc/*-release to reflect new 12.04.5

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  1) according to lsb_release I'm using 12.04.4 but I'm actually on
  12.04.5 (kernel  3.13.0-30-generic #55~precise1-Ubuntu, 64-bit),
  that's actually what this bug report is about

  2) base-files: 6.5ubuntu6.7

  3) I just updated to 12.04.5 (not too painful process, but I did it
  through synaptic because I had some trouble since I was using the
  quantal kernel, see at the end for more details). Expected result:
  lsb_release indicates 12.04.5

  4) lsb_release still indicates 12.04.4.

  More details:

  running commands

  $ lsb_release -a

  or

  $ cat /etc/*release

   still show 12.04.4 as the version, although the command:

  $ hwe-support-status --verbose

  returns:

  "Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until avril 2017."

  which means that it detects properly that I'm using trusty HWE Stack
  (i.e. kernel 3.13 and package xserver-xorg-lts-trusty)

  my bug report is that I suppose both /etc/lsb-release and /etc/os-
  release should reflect this somehow, but it doesn't and no update is
  currently proposed for the "base-files" package.

  A bit of background on the "not-too-painful" update, just to be sure
  it's not the cause of this issue:

  since I was using xserver-xorg-lts-quantal stack (kernel 3.5) the
  direct update from 12.04.4 to .5 didn't work (I had this kind of
  error: http://askubuntu.com/questions/493541/hardware-enablement-
  stack-hwe-out-of-support)

  So, through synaptic, I simply switched back to xserver-xorg-lts-
  precise stack (as suggested on some forum/askslashdot posts, cannot
  remember where exactly) and then I could install xserver-xorg-lts-
  trusty and all dependencies that followed, with first an uninstall of
  xserver-xorg-lts-precise and some other packages (and wine for some
  reason).

  I restarted and booted fine on kernel 3.13:

  $ uname -a

  Linux laptop 3.13.0-30-generic #55~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 4
  21:52:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  update manager then proposed some further updates (notably to
  virtualbox 4.2) but did not propose anymore the HWE Stack update.

  So is it a secondary issue of my non-conventional update process
  (through synaptic and not update manager) or is it simply that the
  package base-files needs an update of the file to reflect the new
  version 12.04.5 ?

  Thanks!

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