debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
date for calculating the version (default: today)
display help message and exit
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.
list all known versions
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.
latest development version
latest old (stable) version
series to calculate the version for
latest stable version
list of all supported versions, including development releases
latest testing version
list of all unsupported stable versions
print the codename (default)
print the release version
print the full name
distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.