Hi everyone, I am wondering if it is possible to get the debian release number for debian testing (and maybe sid) from command line?
I know that current testing is codename buster, while its release number is 10. I can get the codename from command line, but not that the corresponding release number is 10. I know I could match the codename to release numbers, but that is not a nice solution. For stable (stretch 9) and oldstable (jessie 8) etc. it is possible to get that number using different commands. I additionally understand that it is not possible to display something like 10.1 or 10.2 since testing follows not the same release process as stable does. Here are the commands & output I tested without success: __________________________________________________________________ root@mybuster:~# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"; root@mybuster:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid \n \l root@mybuster:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster) Release: testing Codename: buster root@mybuster:~# cat /etc/debian_version buster/sid root@mybuster:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 4.16.0-2-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Debian 7.3.0-19)) #1 SMP Debian 4.16.12-1 (2018-05-27) root@mybuster:~# uname -a Linux mybuster 4.16.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.16.12-1 (2018-05-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux __________________________________________________________________ Thank you for any input :)
