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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Jaeger" <aj at suse.com>
> To: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon at redhat.com>, openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 1:08:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] os="ubuntu" vs os="ubuntu;debian"
> 
> On 10/10/2013 06:59 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > When reviewing a change Tom submitted [1] I noticed that the install-guide
> > combines content that sets the os profiling condition to "ubuntu" and
> > content that sets the os profiling condition to "ubuntu;debian". The
> > former comes from the old install-guide and the later from the old
> > basic-install guide.
> > 
> > What we're wondering is if general opinion is that we should go back to
> > just targeting Ubuntu or target both Debian and Ubuntu going forward? My
> > opinion is that it would be better to use "debian;ubuntu" and then if at
> > any point we do come across a discrepancy between the instructions needed
> > for the two we can easily split them as required.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I'm fine with adding os="ubuntu;debian" to make patching in full Debian
> information in the future easier.
> 
> If we go down that road, should we change all occurences in the guide as
> of now that uses these currently?

It seems like this should be easy enough to do, then if or when someone comes up with something that needs to be separate (package repository configuration seems like it will be the first one) it will be easy to edit it in.

Steve