Bug#746946: wheezy-pu: package distro-info-data/0.23~deb7u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 03:02 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
[...]
> > > I'd argue that 8 would be right for Jessie and 7.0 somewhat wrong for
> > > Wheezy, hence I'd tend to agree to the change. Stefano, where is this
> > > used?
> > 
> > I don't know of anything that uses the --release flag (or that data).
> > 
> > It's possible that people use it in their own scripts, but this isn't
> > something that's very useful for automated tasks. The codenames tend to
> > be the important bit.
> 
> We still need to make a decision on this bit. I've left that patch in,
> for now.

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you regarding this. I think
when I previously looked at the request I assumed that "we" meant the
maintainers, rather than also the Release Team.

I agree that "7.0" is wrong, although it does always worry me changing
stuff like this. If it's unlikely to have been used, maybe just an
explicit mention somewhere obvious would suffice, so that people notice
and can amend things if they are relying on it?

Regards,

Adam