---
name: "debian-distro-info"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "distro-info"
version: "1.20-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/debian-distro-info"
---

# debian-distro-info(1)

provides information about Debian's distributions

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

**debian-distro-info** \[*OPTIONS*\]

## OPTIONS

- **--date**=*DATE*

  *date for calculating the version (default: epoch taken from SOURCE\_DATE\_EPOCH* *environment variable if set, otherwise today)*

- **-h**, **--help**

  display help message and exit

- **--alias**=*DIST*

  *print the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable) relative to* *the distribution codename passed as an argument.* *Only distribution codenames composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted,* *and if the distribution does not qualify as oldstable, stable, testing, or* *unstable, then the same codename passed as argument is returned.*

- **-a**, **--all**

  list all known versions

- **-y**\[*MILESTONE*\], **--days**\[=*MILESTONE*\]

  display number of days until specified version reaches the specified milestone. *MILESTONE* may be one of *created*,  *release*, or  *eol*. If no milestone is specified, assume *release*. For options that return a list, display the normal output followed by whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone. If milestone cannot be calculated, the string '(unknown)' is displayed. Unless one of **-c**, **-f** or **-r** is specified, only the number of days will be displayed.

- **-d**, **--devel**

  latest development version

- **-o**, **--old**

  latest old (stable) version

- **--series**=*SERIES*

  *series to calculate the version for*

- **-s**, **--stable**

  latest stable version

- **--supported**

  list of all supported versions, including development releases

- **-t**, **--testing**

  latest testing version

- **--unsupported**

  list of all unsupported stable versions

- **-c**, **--codename**

  print the codename (default)

- **-r**, **--release**

  print the release version

- **-f**, **--fullname**

  print the full name

## SEE ALSO

[**distro-info**(1)](/distro-info/1.md), [**ubuntu-distro-info**(1)](/ubuntu-distro-info/1.md)

## AUTHOR

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung \<bdrung@debian.org\>.