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

2009-12-23 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 09:17 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 00:09 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: To sum up the naming discussion, there are two possible package names: * distro-release-info * release-info The two distro-specific script will be named

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

2009-12-23 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 15:57 -0600 schrieb Peter Samuelson: [Benjamin Drung] Yes, the name is a bit to generic. Any other suggestions for the name? On the mailing list I found 'release-info'. On my list are now: * release-info * distro-release-info * distro-releases I'd go

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

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 00:09 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: To sum up the naming discussion, there are two possible package names: * distro-release-info * release-info The two distro-specific script will be named debian-release-info and ubuntu-release-info. I tend to name the package

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

2009-12-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 23:59 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 09:34 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com wrote: Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100,

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

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Benjamin Drung] Yes, the name is a bit to generic. Any other suggestions for the name? On the mailing list I found 'release-info'. On my list are now: * release-info * distro-release-info * distro-releases I'd go with 'os-release'. Mostly because I hate the word 'distro'. Unix

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

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 09:34 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com wrote: Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: For Debian I need some informations:

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

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Drung
To sum up the naming discussion, there are two possible package names: * distro-release-info * release-info The two distro-specific script will be named debian-release-info and ubuntu-release-info. I tend to name the package distro-release-info and the symlinked script release-info. Any

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

2009-12-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Benjamin Drung] * distro-release-info This seem to me like the best name of the suggested names. Should i rename the scripts, too? I believe it would be best if the program name and the package name was the same. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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

2009-12-09 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
2009/12/9 Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com: Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: For Debian I need some informations: Until when were following releases supported: buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, and potato? See

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

2009-12-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:03:07AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases but I didn't/couldn't find the information for bo/rex/buzz. Anyone ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history has the information and a citation for buzz but not rex or bo.

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

2009-12-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: * Package name: release The tool isn't about releasing, but about to querying the release. Also, it's about distribution release (not package...). May be a name

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

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com wrote: Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: For Debian I need some informations: Until when were following releases supported: buzz, rex, bo,

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

2009-12-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:07:59AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Yes, the name is a bit to generic. Any other suggestions for the name? On the mailing list I found 'release-info'. On my list are now: * release-info That sound appropriate to me. Should i rename the scripts, too? I don't

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

2009-12-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: * Package name: release The tool isn't about releasing, but about to querying the release. Also, it's about distribution release (not package...). May be a name like {get|query}-distr[o]?-release... or something completely different

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

2009-12-06 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com * Package name: release Version : 0.1 (native) Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com * License : GPL v3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : provides information about the