Ubuntu
distro-info package

  1. Bug #963062
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 963062

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: distro-info should have posix shell cmdline tool

Benjamin now has a distro-info-data [1,2] and distro-info [3,4] package made.
This represents 3 features that we'd like to have into Ubuntu.
 a.) the shell commands are significantly smaller than the haskel commands (and just as fast)
 b.) there is no need to update the distro-info package in an SRU (and have binary rebuilds) only to ship new data.
 c.) there is no longer a build dependency on haskell, so both packages are suitable for main inclusion

For a and b, I'm marking this bug a Feature Freeze Enhancement, as I'd like to see it in 12.04.
For 'c', I plain on filing an MIR for distro-info and distro-info-data.

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[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/distro-info-data.git
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/distro-info-data.html
[3] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/distro-info.git
[4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/distro-info.html