Bug#466407: Automated way to get suite names

2021-08-18 Thread Oliver C.
Dear Nye Liu /usr/lib/os-release does have enough informations to read the current suite name of the installed system. PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SU

Bug#466407: Automated way to get suite names

2018-04-12 Thread Nye Liu
It has now been 10 years. I will work on this if someone can suggest a way to deterministically map stable/testing to suite names.

Bug#466407: Automated way to get suite names

2015-07-01 Thread Nye Liu
Perhaps we can hit a mirror README (e.g. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/README) and parse out the stable/testing/unstable/experimental -> suite mappings? Or is there a canonical way to do so? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs