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.
TIL! Thank you.
Ian.
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