debian_support.releasecodename(): new function

Use it in secmaster.listqueue().


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@16585 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/debian_support.py b/lib/python/debian_support.py
index a983700f56..fc76e892ec 100644
--- a/lib/python/debian_support.py
+++ b/lib/python/debian_support.py
@@ -518,7 +518,24 @@ def getconfig():
     if _config is not None:
         return _config
     _config = json.load(file(findresource("data", "config.json")))
-    return _config    
+    return _config
+
+_releasecodename = None
+def releasecodename(dist):
+    """Converts a release name to the code name.
+    For instance, "sid" and "unstable" are turned into "sid"."""
+    global _releasecodename
+    if _releasecodename is None:
+        result = {}
+        for (codename, obj) in getconfig()["distributions"].items():
+            result[codename] = codename
+            if "release" in obj:
+                result[obj["release"]] = codename
+        _releasecodename = result
+    try:
+        return _releasecodename[dist]
+    except:
+        raise ValueError("invalid release name: " + repr(dist))
 
 def test():
     # Version