Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

[Christopher Crammond <ccrammond@opencountry.com>]

Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in this case Debian Packages.  If you were unlucky enough to have them in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package file itself would provide said information to allow me to write a program to sort them out.

-- christopher

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:

Christopher Crammond <ccrammond@opencountry.com> writes:
  

I was wondering if someone could provide me with some additional
information related to Debian packaging.  Specifically, I would like to
know if there is a way to determine which version of Debian that a
package belongs to?
    

No. Almost all packages in stable have been uploaded to unstable, were
migrated to testing and then were released as stable. We would have to
do new uploads for each of these transitions to keep such a field
updated.

Why do you need it, anyway?

Marc
  

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