DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
NAME
debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
SYNOPSIS
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: epoch taken from
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable if set, otherwise today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
--alias=DIST
print the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable) relative
to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distri-
bution codenames composed of lower case ASCII letters are ac-
cepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as oldstable,
stable, testing, or unstable, then the same codename passed as
argument is returned.
-a, --all
list all known versions
-y[MILESTONE], --days[=MILESTONE]
display number of days until specified version reaches the speci-
fied milestone. MILESTONE may be one of created, release, or
eol. If no milestone is specified, assume release. For options
that return a list, display the normal output followed by white-
space and the number of days until the specified milestone. If
milestone cannot be calculated, the string '(unknown)' is dis-
played. Unless one of -c, -f or -r is specified, only the number
of days will be displayed.
-d, --devel
latest development version
-o, --old
latest old (stable) version
--series=SERIES
series to calculate the version for
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported versions, including development releases
-t, --testing
latest testing version
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO
distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung
<bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info August 2013 DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
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