Is Parrot based on debian 11 or 12?

From the info below how do I tell if I have Debian 11 or 12?

$cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot OS 5.1 (Electro Ara)”
NAME=“Parrot OS”
VERSION_ID=“5.1”
VERSION=“5.1 (Electro Ara)”
VERSION_CODENAME=ara
ID=parrot
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.parrotsec.org/
SUPPORT_URL=“https://community.parrotsec.org/
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://community.parrotsec.org/

Parrot 5.1 is based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” (Stable) with kernel 5.18

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You can check by running.

cat /proc/version
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Hmm, this command on Parrot is showing Debian 10 based on gcc version.

┌─[masmer@cracker]─[~]
└──╼ $cat /proc/version
Linux version 6.1.0-1parrot1-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Parrot) 2.37.90.20220130) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Parrot 6.1.15-1parrot1 (2023-04-25)

Kali shows

┌──(a-men㉿shiva)-[/home/a-men/Code]
└─ $cat /proc/version
Linux version 6.3.0-kali1-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc-12 (Debian 12.3.0-4) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40.50.20230611) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.3.7-1kali1 (2023-06-29)```
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Linux version 6.0.0-2parrot1-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc-11 (Parrot

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