release-info package naming
Benjamin Drung wrote distro-info, a set of CSV data, a python library to
read it, and scripts using the python library. It contains historical
data on Debian & Ubuntu releases. (I'm sure other derivatives can be
considered too)
They can be used to determine things like the name of the current Debian
testing release, the Ubuntu dev release, the current supported releases,
etc.
Examples:
$ debian-distro-info --supported
lenny
squeeze
wheezy
sid
$ debian-distro-info --date='2011-01-10' --stable
lenny
$ ubuntu-distro-info --devel
oneiric
on Debian, distro-info symlinks to debian-distro-info, on Ubuntu to
ubuntu-distro-info
Benjamin attempted to get this into Debian (#559761), but was rejected
by the ftp-masters because of size. They suggested putting it in
devscripts (#566578). That turned out to be a bad idea, because there
are people who'd like to use this library without devscripts
(Launchpad).
So, any suggestions on a name? Maybe some general consensus from this
list can help sway the ftp-masters into accepting it.
SR
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