ubuntu-releases package

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 16:28 -0500 schrieb James Westby:
> On Sun Nov 22 19:16:57 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Introduce a ubuntu-releases package. This package will have a list of
> > all known Ubuntu releases. A small script will give you the needed
> > information, based on the releases list and the current date. Examples:
> 
> I have often thought this would be useful.
> 
> My only question would be on the package that it would go in, as a
> whole new package may be unnecessary.

The package needs to be updated every six month via SRU. Therefore it
should be standalone.

> I have a whole bunch of scripts that I would move over to this if
> it was available.

I filed an ITP for Debian [1] and pushed it into a git repository [2].
Have fun with testing.

> Have you considered making something similar for Debian (though
> it's a problem that bites less there)?

It has now a generic interface.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/559761
[2] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/release.git

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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