Bug#645171: distro-info: Query the distro alias from the codename

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2011, 11:10 +0200 schrieb Antonio Ospite:
> Maybe distro-utils can provide such functionality:
> 
>   $ distro-info --alias sid
>   unstable
> 
>   $ distro-info --alias squeeze
>   testing
> 
>   $ distro-info --alias natty
>   natty
> 
> This could also be used to play with debian/changelog when building for 
> distributions different from 'unstable', AFAIR debian/changelog expects the 
> alias (stable, unstable) in the distribution field, not the codename.
> 
> What do you think about that?

This feature would be useful. The retrieval of the alias in my
pbuilderrc file is done by:

 case "$DIST" in
        $(debian-distro-info -d))
                DIST="unstable"
                ;;
        $(debian-distro-info -t))
                DIST="testing"
                ;;
        $(debian-distro-info -s))
                DIST="stable"
                ;;
esac

This could be reduced to one debian-distro-info --alias call with this
feature.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

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