os-release IMAGE_VERSION doesn't allow all characters from the UAPI Version Format Specification

[nikstur]

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Expected behaviour you didn't see

Expected the IMAGE_VERSION field to support ~ and ^ following to the UAPI Version Format Specification

Unexpected behaviour you saw

The os-release man page limits the allowed characters to:

mostly numeric, no spaces or other characters outside of 0–9, a–z, ".", "_" and "-"

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