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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  (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument.  Only distribution code-
	      names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable,  testing  or  unstable,
	      then the same codename passed as argument is returned.

       -a, --all
	      list all known versions

       -d, --devel
	      latest development version

       -o, --old
	      latest old (stable) version

       -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							   January 2011 					     DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)