Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)
On 2 January 2013 14:32, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:56:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> > $ man debian-distro-info
>> >
>> > Debian OS provides API to query such information.
>> > In addition, stable alias names are also provided (stable, testing,
>> > unstable, experimental).
>> > As a last resort you can also scrape archive mirrors dists (e.g.
>> > ftp-master, snapshot, old-releases) and check the symlinks.
>>
>> That seems like a hack to workaround the fact that the archive doesn't
>> provide this information in one file.
>
> Like a machine-readable http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/README ?
>
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
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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