Re: old stable support due date

[Stephen Dowdy <sdowdy@ucar.edu>]

Julien Cristau wrote, On 10/15/2013 11:24 AM:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 17:52:10 +0100, Luis Matos wrote:

>> Where can the users find the date where the old stable (squeeze) will
>> stop receiving updates?
>>
> See http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
> squeeze EOL should happen around April or May 2014.

Luis,

Or, programmatically (based upon release dates and
presumed 1 year support period):

    $ awk -F, '$3=="'$(debian-distro-info --oldstable)'"{print $NF}' /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv
    2014-05-04

or...

    $ awk -F, 'NR==1{print$0} $3=="'$(debian-distro-info --oldstable)'"{print $0}' /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv
    version,codename,series,created,release,eol
    6.0,Squeeze,squeeze,2009-02-14,2011-02-06,2014-05-04

ISTM that 'debian-distro-info' would greatly benefit from a mode
where it prints all/any of the csv fields for a selected codename.
(obviating the 'awk' blather above)

e.g.

*option* = currently unsupported/desired command line option

$ debian-distro-info --stable *--release*
2013-05-04

$ debian-distro-info --oldstable *--eol*
2014-05-04
(note, the 1 year support from stable release to oldstable eol)

$ debian-distro-info --oldstable *--version*
6.0

$ debian-distro-info --testing *--version*
8.0

$ debian-distro-info --testing *--release*
undefined

(note there's also a contradiction here with the new versioning
scheme.  i.e. Wheezy is listed as version 7.0, but i think it's
now supposed to be just "7", as the middle number of a version
has been deprecated.)


--stephen
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