Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Maybe distro-info-data's csv file should be published on mirrors, to
> even provide historical names.
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/distro-info-data.git;a=blob;f=debian.csv;h=ed3302e57d18f7697eec0b67fee259b904436684;hb=HEAD
deb822 would be better than CSV, I think something named
dists/Releases or similar, with contents similar to Ubuntu's
meta-release and parts of the Release files.
It would need to indicate support periods so that apt can warn users
when their security support is about to expire.
Ubuntu might want to keep their release notes and upgrade tool links
in it. Debian might want the release notes links but probably not the
upgrade tool ones.
It should probably be signed.
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