On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:14:54AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Benjamin Drung <bdr...@ubuntu.com> > > * Package name : release > Version : 0.1 (native) > Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung <bdr...@ubuntu.com> > * License : GPL v3+ > Programming Lang: Python > Description : provides information about the current releases > > This package contains information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. > The > release script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release > of > your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are > the debian-release and the ubuntu-release scripts. > > It's based on the idea posted on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [1]. > Comments, suggestions and feature requests are highly welcome. > > For Debian I need some informations: Until when were following releases > supported: buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, and potato? > > [1] > http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg09951.html
I fail to see how that can be useful as a package, except if the package only calls an online service, in which case having that as a package makes not much sense. For example, ubuntu-release -d would say lucid on karmic, but what about when lucid is released ? karmic is still going to say lucid, while lucid will be saying the next one. Wouldn't it be simpler for ubuntu to use something like "ubuntu-next" or "ubuntu-dev" as a target distribution ? Debian doesn't have these problems, since it only uses "unstable". (likewise for stable, where we have s-p-u and stable-security) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
