Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases

[Benjamin Drung]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com>

* Package name    : release
  Version         : 0.1 (native)
  Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung <bdrung at 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-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com/msg09951.html