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

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/12/9 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.us>:
> 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!
>

It is similar tool. lsb_release shows the info about the release you
are currently running. The proposed tool will show current stable &
developing releases for Ubuntu & Debian.

So that if you want to upload to Ubuntu it will tell you what's the
current development release is.

There are intentions to make other tools use it as well. Such that new
codename will be needed to update only in one place and all revelevent
packaging tools & scripts will pick it up.


-- 
With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич

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