debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's
distributions
debian-distro-info [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 '(unknown)' 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 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
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung
<bdrung@debian.org>.