Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
>
> * Package name : release
The tool isn't about releasing, but about to querying the release. Also,
it's about distribution release (not package...). May be a name like
{get|query}-distr[o]?-release... or something completely different like
"supported-distro" would be more explicit.
> Description : provides information about the current releases
>
> This package contains information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The
> release script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of
> your distribution.
There was some discussions about a similar tool & issues:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01138.html
and to query Debian point release.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/12/msg00742.html
> To get information about a specific distribution there are
> the debian-release and the ubuntu-release scripts.
I suppose you mean that there will be different back-end script.
(I suppose that you don't mean that each program will have to implement
a select/case algorithm?)
> It's based on the idea posted on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list
> [1]. Comments, suggestions and feature requests are highly welcome.
>
> For Debian I need some informations: Until when were following
> releases supported: buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, and potato?
See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases but I didn't/couldn't find the
information for bo/rex/buzz. Anyone ?
AFAIK, Debian have never supported more than two stable distributions
(stable + old-stable), therefore, you can assume that a distribution end
of life is "lower than" distribution N+2 release.
Franklin
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