On 30 December 2012 19:23, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On 12/30/2012 04:26 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> Would it be an idea to publish the list of version numbers and associated >> code names a few releases ahead, say the upcoming three releases? Of >> course the prerogative of deciding on the names will remain with the >> release team, it would only be pulled forward a bit. > I have 3 things to say about this. Yes, then yes, and yes again. > > Not only this is good for our users, but this is also technically > needed for both upstream and us, doing the packaging. > > Let's say you have a software that somehow, installs Debian. > Then it might require the user to select which name of the > release to install. > > Currently, we knew about the name Jessie *after* the freeze, > meaning that we couldn't have written a software that would > debootstrap it without asking for an unblock. >
$ man debian-distro-info Debian OS provides API to query such information. In addition, stable alias names are also provided (stable, testing, unstable, experimental). As a last resort you can also scrape archive mirrors dists (e.g. ftp-master, snapshot, old-releases) and check the symlinks. > I made that point very clear multiple times, and I haven't been > the only one doing it. Yet, it hasn't been heard, and I never > receive any technical argumentation as to why we shouldn't > know the release names well in advance. Maybe if there was > a greater number of DD insisting that this is necessary, this > could change. Please +1 to this if you agree. > -1. There is already multiple APIs provided to query such information in multiple ways as outlined above. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhlujfwh7su-yqulp8mcmavyh9kb2fcnulej7lphw3egd...@mail.gmail.com
