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man/os-release: Add VENDOR_NAME= and VENDOR_URL= keys to os-release

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These will be used in UIs to refer to the company or organization which
produces the OS separately from referring to the OS itself.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Fixes: #27777
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Philip Withnall 2023-05-31 15:49:42 +01:00 committed by Luca Boccassi
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for light blue, or <literal>ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"</literal> for Fedora blue.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>VENDOR_NAME=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The name of the OS vendor. This is the name of the organization or company which
produces the OS. This field is optional.</para>
<para>This name is intended to be exposed in "About this system" UIs or software update UIs when
needed to distinguish the OS vendor from the OS itself. It is intended to be human readable.</para>
<para>Examples: <literal>VENDOR_NAME="Fedora Project"</literal> for Fedora Linux,
<literal>VENDOR_NAME="Canonical"</literal> for Ubuntu.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>VENDOR_URL=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The homepage of the OS vendor. This field is optional. The
<varname>VENDOR_NAME=</varname> field should be set if this one is, although clients must be
robust against either field not being set.</para>
<para>The value should be in <ulink
url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986">RFC3986 format</ulink>, and should be
<literal>http:</literal> or <literal>https:</literal> URLs. Only one URL shall be listed in the
setting.</para>
<para>Examples: <literal>VENDOR_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"</literal>,
<literal>VENDOR_URL="https://canonical.com/"</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>