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Post #2134334

2026-05-06 14:11 UTC

#TIL that Ubuntu has a 'distro-info-data' package containing two tiny CSV files, one for Debian and one for Ubuntu, telling you which numbered versions correspond to which cutesy codenames. I only spotted it because the name showed up in 'apt upgrade'. But it's a more convenient source of that data than anywhere else I've ever looked! Previously when I've forgotten that kind of thing I've looked it up on Wikipedia, or on the Debian website, or in extreme cases by instantiating a container and 'cat /etc/os-release'.

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