[Bug 1012459] Re: carve out distro information to a separate package

[Eero Aaltonen]

After reading bug #667614 I can offer a proposal:

Suppose we have a directory for vendor/release information. For the
scope of this comment, let's call it 'vendor.d'

Whenever Debian and Ubuntu make new releases, they would then update
corresponding packages, which would update the files

vendor.d/debian-dists
vendor.d/ubuntu-dists

If you wanted to build a package for the "Esoteric" vendor "Iffy"
release, you could install a vendor-info package for "Esoteric".

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Title:
  carve out distro information to a separate package

Status in lintian package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in lintian package in Debian:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  the lintian package includes hard-coded information about Ubuntu
  distribution releases in /usr/share/lintian/data/changelog-file
  /ubuntu-dists and possibly other places . This volatile information
  should be carved out to and maintained in the distro-info package
  instead.

  bug 1303603
  bug 1243384
  bug 1268123
  bug 1507350

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