Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases
Paul Smith
paul at mad-scientist.us
Wed Dec 9 15:22:02 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> 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.
I wonder what the difference is between this and the existing, standard
lsb_release command.
I'm not saying we shouldn't create a new package, if lsb_release is not
sufficient for some reason. I'm just not sure what the reason is. Can
someone write up a few sentences about what this package does that makes
it necessary, instead of using lsb_release?
Cheers!
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