On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:49 PM Martin Krämer <mk.mad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am wondering if it is possible to get the debian release number for debian > testing (and maybe sid) from command line? > I know that current testing is codename buster, while its release number is > 10. > I can get the codename from command line, but not that the corresponding > release number is 10. I know I could match the codename to release numbers, > but that is not a nice solution. > For stable (stretch 9) and oldstable (jessie 8) etc. it is possible to get > that number using different commands. > > I additionally understand that it is not possible to display something like > 10.1 or 10.2 since testing follows not the same release process as stable > does. > > Here are the commands & output I tested without success: > ________________________________________________________________ ..... > root@mybuster:~# cat /etc/debian_version > buster/sid
Interesting. Even 9.2 and 9.3 servers installed here contain the following: ngeovanis@maglab01:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 9.2 ngeovanis@maglab01:~$ > Thank you for any input :)
