debian-distro-info (1)

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Copyright (c) 2009-2014, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/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 distribution 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 specified 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 whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone. If milestone cannot be calculated, the string aq(unknown)aq is displayed. 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 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>.