Thread: [Canola] osso-software-version - what is it? why is it being removed
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Originally Posted by BruceL View Post
It returns version info. My guess is that if you replace certain files then it is removed to signify that you no longer have a "known version."
Not quite. It's a meta-package that encompasses everything that makes up "Maemo". Wasn't quite as important in the pre-SSU days, but now it's used to push SSU updates (osso-software-version-rx*4 is updated, and pulls in all the new packages).