Am Dienstag, den 31.05.2011, 17:31 +0200 schrieb Stefano Rivera: > 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. The problem is not the package name, but the name of the script and library. First we need a name describing 'lenny', 'squeeze', 'wheezy', 'lucid', 'natty', 'oneiric'. Is that the release, the distro, the whatever? PS: Please keep me in CC. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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