Re: [PATCH] Given a package allow to check in which releases security support has ended
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 07:28:34PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hi Guido,
> >
> > On Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2016, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > When triaging LTS issues I always have to look up what we still support
> > > and what not. Attached script simplifies this a bit:
> > >
> > > $ bin/support-ended.py --lists /path/to/debian-security-support/ iceape
> > > Package unsupported in wheezy
> > > Package unsupported in squeeze
> >
> > very nice!
> >
> > > I didn't find a place in Debian where we canonically map release names
> > > to release numbers (i.e. squeeze -> 6.x, jessie -> 7.x). I'm sure there
> > > is such a thing so I'm happy about any pointers.
> >
> > apt-cache show distro-info
>
> Ahhh...great and there's python-distro-info as well.
>
> I'm not using it yet since there's no support for LTS EOL dates yet (bug
> to be filed in a second). It's needed for the new (attached) version
> that also validates the packages individual EOL date.
Thats #782685. I've committed the current version until we have this
sorted out.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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