debian-distro-info
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: 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 dis-
tribution codenames composed of lower case ASCII letters are
accepted, 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 spec-
ified 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 num-
ber 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 stable versions
-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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