Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 10:01 +0100 schrieb Mike Hommey:
> I fail to see how that can be useful as a package, except if the package
> only calls an online service, in which case having that as a package
> makes not much sense.
> For example, ubuntu-release -d would say lucid on karmic, but what
> about when lucid is released ? karmic is still going to say lucid, while
> lucid will be saying the next one.
Until lucid is released, ubuntu-release -d would say lucid, but after
the release it will say m... (yes, a SRU with a one line change to the
data csv file is needed for the new information). The development
release is determined based on the date. We can add the next codename,
when it's announced.
> Wouldn't it be simpler for ubuntu to use something like "ubuntu-next" or
> "ubuntu-dev" as a target distribution ?
'ubuntu-release -d' should always give you _current_ development release
or it will fail with telling you, that the data are outdated (example:
ubuntu-release -d --date=2011-01-01).
> Debian doesn't have these
> problems, since it only uses "unstable". (likewise for stable, where we
> have s-p-u and stable-security)
Yes, this tool is less useful on Debian, but it still provides you a
mapping from {old,stable,testing,sid} to the current codename. That's
for example useful for my pbuilder config.
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Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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