Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2013-01-02 Thread Simon Paillard
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).

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2013-01-02 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
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

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
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 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
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.

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-31 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
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

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-31 Thread Paul Wise
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.

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
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

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-30 Thread Philipp Kern
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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature