Julien Cristau wrote, On 10/15/2013 11:24 AM: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 17:52:10 +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
>> Where can the users find the date where the old stable (squeeze) will >> stop receiving updates? >> > See http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan > squeeze EOL should happen around April or May 2014. Luis, Or, programmatically (based upon release dates and presumed 1 year support period): $ awk -F, '$3=="'$(debian-distro-info --oldstable)'"{print $NF}' /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv 2014-05-04 or... $ awk -F, 'NR==1{print$0} $3=="'$(debian-distro-info --oldstable)'"{print $0}' /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv version,codename,series,created,release,eol 6.0,Squeeze,squeeze,2009-02-14,2011-02-06,2014-05-04 ISTM that 'debian-distro-info' would greatly benefit from a mode where it prints all/any of the csv fields for a selected codename. (obviating the 'awk' blather above) e.g. *option* = currently unsupported/desired command line option $ debian-distro-info --stable *--release* 2013-05-04 $ debian-distro-info --oldstable *--eol* 2014-05-04 (note, the 1 year support from stable release to oldstable eol) $ debian-distro-info --oldstable *--version* 6.0 $ debian-distro-info --testing *--version* 8.0 $ debian-distro-info --testing *--release* undefined (note there's also a contradiction here with the new versioning scheme. i.e. Wheezy is listed as version 7.0, but i think it's now supposed to be just "7", as the middle number of a version has been deprecated.) --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - [email protected] - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
