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Debian is quite notably missing from that list.

http://bugs.debian.org/659853

It doesn't have /etc/lsb-release either.

http://bugs.debian.org/444678

Instead the lsb-release program apparently simply outputs the necessary values without using a configuration file.

I'm guessing the debian version of systemd just patches it to handle debian, and not make it autoconfigure each time from a configuration file.

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