Add Debian or Whonix version check

[Patrick]

@nurmagoz

lsb_release -a

Very few are looking at this command. Not even How to check Whonix version in Qubes - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog who tried some things. So won’t fix since messing with that creates more issues than good.

The solution would be to have a better message. Instead of:

WARNING: Whonix News Result: ✘ Outdated: Installed whonix-gateway-packages-dependencies 3.4.2-1 is outdated! You should update. You can automatically update using Whonix’s internal updater. Please update using: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It could have a link to Release Upgrade.

A real solution:

Whonix Upgrade Notification

We might have discussed this after the last upgrade. I’m not sure any decision was made. Too many people were caught unaware of the Whonix 13 release, which is a failure on so many levels… But if more can be done to keep people informed, I guess it should be done. Plus, we have to pick up the pieces after broken installations happen anyway so might as well reduce the support burden. Would it be possible for Whonixcheck to spawn a second pop-up for a few weeks before release? (Because any notic…

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cat /etc/whonix_version

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whonixcheck --verbose --function show_versions

Includes:

[INFO] [whonixcheck] whonix_build_version: 3:2.6-1
[INFO] [whonixcheck] whonix-gateway-packages-dependencies-cli: 7.9-1
[INFO] [whonixcheck] /etc/whonix_version: 14