Re: release-info package naming

[Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>]

Hi Matt (2011.06.02_12:09:11_+0200)
> For example, I wouldn't call it distrostatus or distroreleases the like,
> because it could very well be useful to add other information to it in the
> future.  The right name really depends on the long-term intent of the
> library.

The short term intent of it is to get rid of all the hardcoding of
release names in packages. Having to backport (mostly
developer-oriented) packages so that they refer to the current
development release by default is just silly.

As to longer term goals: Benjamin?

SR

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