1DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)       General Commands Manual      DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
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NAME

6       debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
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SYNOPSIS

9       debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
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OPTIONS

12       --date=DATE
13              date for calculating the version (default: today)
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15       -h, --help
16              display help message and exit
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18       --alias=DIST
19              print  the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable) relative
20              to the distribution codename passed as an argument.   Only  dis‐
21              tribution  codenames  composed  of  lower case ASCII letters are
22              accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as oldstable,
23              stable,  testing,  or unstable, then the same codename passed as
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26       -a, --all
27              list all known versions
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29       -y[MILESTONE], --days[=MILESTONE]
30              display number of days until specified version reaches the spec‐
31              ified  milestone.   MILESTONE may be one of created, release, or
32              eol.  If no milestone is specified, assume release.  For options
33              that return a list, display the normal output followed by white‐
34              space and the number of days until the specified milestone.   If
35              milestone  cannot  be calculated, the string '(unknown)' is dis‐
36              played.  Unless one of -c, -f or -r is specified, only the  num‐
37              ber of days will be displayed.
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39       -d, --devel
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42       -o, --old
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45       --series=SERIES
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51       --supported
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SEE ALSO

70       distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
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AUTHOR

73       The  script  and  this  manual  page  was  written  by  Benjamin  Drung
74       <bdrung@debian.org>.
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78distro-info                       August 2013            DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)