On 2 January 2013 14:32, Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:56:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> > $ 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. >> >> That seems like a hack to workaround the fact that the archive doesn't >> provide this information in one file. > > Like a machine-readable http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/README ? >
Maybe distro-info-data's csv file should be published on mirrors, to even provide historical names. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/distro-info-data.git;a=blob;f=debian.csv;h=ed3302e57d18f7697eec0b67fee259b904436684;hb=HEAD 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/canbhlujqqxjppjeqcxbkmqeqr9zzfprevl-y40eawb4trqg...@mail.gmail.com
