Re: Knowing the release names in advance

[Kris Deugau <kdeugau@vianet.ca>]

Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> $ man debian-distro-info

Serious question - is this a real manpage?  If so, which package is it in?

I don't seem to have it available by default on any Debian system at
hand, from etch through wheezy...

> Debian OS provides API to query such information.

Second serious question - what is this API?  I asked something along
this line a number of years ago, and most of the responses could be
summed up as a combination of a bewildered "Why would you want/need to
do *that*?!?" and "Your question has no useful answer because <insert
edge case>".

-kgd