On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:56:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
$ man debian-distro-info
Debian OS provides API to query such information.
In addition, stable alias names are also provided (stable, testing,
unstable, experimental).
On 2 January 2013 14:32, Simon Paillard spaill...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:56:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
$ man debian-distro-info
Debian OS provides API to query such information.
In addition, stable alias
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Simon Paillard wrote:
Like a machine-readable http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/README ?
Yeah, or something like this:
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
Maybe distro-info-data's csv file should be published on mirrors, to
even provide historical names.
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 03:55:22AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Wouldn't it be more simple to just choose a name and we would never ever
have to talk about it again, and never ever have to process any of such
unblocks?
Sure thing: The next release after Jessie will be called Thomas. [0]
Hi Thomas and everybody, and « bonne année » !
It seems to me that the main technical arguments advocating predictable or
sortable release names have been given, so I think that the next step would be
to make sure that they get to the right ears at the right time. While this
discussion on -devel
On 01/01/2013 04:21 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
Hi Thomas and everybody, and « bonne année » !
It seems to me that the main technical arguments advocating predictable or
sortable release names have been given, so I think that the next step would be
to make sure that they get to the right ears
Le Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:26:17PM +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
Maybe it's a bit overkill to do a DEP just for that no?
For simple propositions, a DEP is not much more than giving a number to a wiki
page, and keeping track if the proposition is under discussion, accepted or
rejected. The
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:28:04PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 12/31/2012 04:16 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
Please don't. -devel is not a popularity contest.
I'm stunted by the complexity of your argumentation.
It for sure helps in the debate.
Doing '+1' on an argument doesn't exactly help a
On 12/31/2012 05:47 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:28:04PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 12/31/2012 04:16 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
Please don't. -devel is not a popularity contest.
I'm stunted by the complexity of your argumentation.
It for sure helps in the debate.
On 30 December 2012 19:23, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote:
On 12/30/2012 04:26 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
Would it be an idea to publish the list of version numbers and associated
code names a few releases ahead, say the upcoming three releases? Of
course the prerogative of deciding on
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:23:56 +0800
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote:
Let's say you have a software that somehow, installs Debian.
I use a lot of those and wrote one of them.
Then it might require the user to select which name of the
release to install.
Or it could simply use the names
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
$ man debian-distro-info
Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in?
I don't seem to have it available by default on any Debian system at
hand, from etch through wheezy...
Debian OS provides API to query such information.
Second serious
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:38:54 -0500, Kris Deugau wrote:
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
$ man debian-distro-info
Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in?
I don't seem to have it available by default on any Debian system at
hand, from etch through wheezy...
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On 2012-12-31 10:38:54 -0500 (-0500), Kris Deugau wrote:
Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is
it in?
[...]
It's introduced in Wheezy and available in backports for Squeeze:
http://packages.debian.org/distro-info
http://bugs.debian.org/559761
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:38:54AM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote:
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
$ man debian-distro-info
Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in?
That was my initial reaction. Then I found it on my system... ???
This was because ubuntu-dev-tools
On 12/31/2012 08:03 PM, Neil Williams wrote:
Or it could simply use the names which don't change: oldstable, stable,
testing, unstable, experimental. That's what multistrap does. That's
why the archive *has* names which don't change.
Then we release a new stable, and these names have a
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
$ man debian-distro-info
Debian OS provides API to query such information.
In addition, stable alias names are also provided (stable, testing,
unstable, experimental).
As a last resort you can also scrape archive mirrors dists (e.g.
On 12/30/2012 04:26 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
Would it be an idea to publish the list of version numbers and associated
code names a few releases ahead, say the upcoming three releases? Of
course the prerogative of deciding on the names will remain with the
release team, it would only be
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:23:56AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Please +1 to this if you agree.
Please don't. -devel is not a popularity contest.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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On 12/31/2012 04:16 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
Please don't. -devel is not a popularity contest.
I'm stunted by the complexity of your argumentation.
It for sure helps in the debate.
Thomas
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