Package: dgit
Version: 8.4
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: getting rid of "testing""):
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 12:04:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > [What is currently stable, etc.] is available via the ftpmaster API
> > service, and by reading symlinks
> > in archive mirrors. I think the idea of having this information in a
> > .deb too (ideally kept up to date in all in-support releases,
> > including LTS) is a good one.
>
> distro-info-data.deb has this information for Debian and Ubuntu, in a
> CSV file. It has convenience bindings for Perl, Python and CLI, and is
> also used by recent versions of Debian's implementation of lsb-release.
>
> It doesn't currently get an exemption from (old)stable releases' stability
> policies, but the data is in src:distro-info-data, separated from the
> convenience bindings in src:distro-info, presumably so that it could
> get updated more often if that was felt to be important.
dgit currently has duplicated list of suite name to distro name
mappings, in its default config.
dgit should be able to use distro-info-data in the absence of a config
setting; and the existing duplicated data in the default configuration
should probably be retired. (The facility to augment the mapping with
config settings should be retained.)
Ian.
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