Howdy! Firstly, sorry if I'm sending the message to the wrong mailing list. If that's the case, please, point me to the right one.
Although the subject says it all, let me explain the background of the change so you all can get the idea of why it'd help a few projects and/or even come up with a better solution than adding a ".treeinfo" file. I'm one of the maintainers of libosinfo[0], which is a project that, basically, keeps info about OSes as such: the hardware they support, the location for downloading ISOs, the location of online installation trees, the minimum/recommended/maximum resources for an OS, scripts for automating "JEOS"/"Desktop" installations and so on. One of the APIs provided by libosinfo is to guess an OS from its online installation tree and it's easily done by a treeinfo file like the ones that can seen here[1], here[2] and here[3]. For the Debian case however, as the ".treeinfo" file is not used, we're struggling about having a reliable way to guess the OS from its tree because we didn't find a specific file that we could try to inspect in order to decide whether the installation tree is for debian7, debian8, debian9, debian-testing ... We also face the very same issue with Ubuntu's installation trees and when approached they told us to firstly contact Debian and they'd be happy to take the same direction taken by Debian. So, would be possible to have the ".treeinfo" file added to the installers' page? Is there any suggestion on any other path we could take from our side? [0]: https://libosinfo.org/ [1]: http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/leap/15.0/repo/oss/.treeinfo [2]: http://mirror.vutbr.cz/fedora/releases/29/Server/x86_64/os/.treeinfo [3]: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/os/x86_64/.treeinfo Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio
