No newline at end of files

In the Unix/Linux/POSIX worlds, text files are by definition sequences LF-terminated lines. It follows that, in order to be valid, a non-empty text file must end with a newline (ASCII LF = \n).

This repository contains 30 files that fail to meet this criterion:

• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• 28 os-release files (e.g. alma_*, fedora_{41..43}, gentoo_*)

The list is given by this command:

grep -Pzlvr --exclude-dir=.git '\x0a$' .

The markdown files not being proper text files may not be a big deal. However, the idea that some distros provide os-release files that are not valid text files is something I find hard to believe. I just spun up a Fedora 23 VM and sure, its /etc/os-release does end in \n, as expected, unlike the fedora_43 file in this repo.

Is there any known instance of a distro's /etc/os-release actually ending with an incomplete line? Or, as I suspect, are all these just failures to correctly copy the file into this repo? If so, would the maintainers accept a pull request fixing the situation?

Start by running the issue's grep command to verify the listed files, then inspect CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and the named os-release files. Done means every non-empty text file ends with an ASCII LF newline; rerun the command to confirm it reports no files.