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]
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.
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/distro-info-data.git;a=blob;f=debian.csv;h=ed3302e57d18f7697eec0b67fee259b904436684;h
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 2 January 2013 14:32, Simon Paillard 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 names are
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, experime
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 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 ea
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 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
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 dif
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 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, 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...
% a
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 01:23:56 +0800
Thomas Goirand 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 which don't ch
On 30 December 2012 19:23, Thomas Goirand 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 the names
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 d
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 he
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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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 12/30/2012 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 p
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