Solved How to know which suites are supported by debootstrap

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mkru

FreeBSD has debootstrap utility which can be used to bootstrap Debian/Ubuntu system.
The user must provides the SUITE parameter which is:

Code: 
The SUITE may be a release code name (eg, sid, stretch, jessie) or a
symbolic name (eg, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable)

However, how does one know which suites are supported?
For example, I know I can debootstrap Ubuntu 22.04 by providing jammy as the suite argument.
However, I know this only because I gave it a try.
I thought that maybe I could find a list of valid suites in the man debootstrap, but I was wrong.
In others, how do I know if, for example, Ubuntu 24.04 can be bootstrapped without trying to run debootstrap noble <TARGET>?
 
mkru said:
FreeBSD has debootstrap utility which can be used to bootstrap Debian/Ubuntu system.
The user must provides the SUITE parameter which is:

Code: 
The SUITE may be a release code name (eg, sid, stretch, jessie) or a
symbolic name (eg, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable)

However, how does one know which suites are supported?
For example, I know I can debootstrap Ubuntu 22.04 by providing jammy as the suite argument.
However, I know this only because I gave it a try.
I thought that maybe I could find a list of valid suites in the man debootstrap, but I was wrong.
In others, how do I know if, for example, Ubuntu 24.04 can be bootstrapped without trying to run debootstrap noble <TARGET>?
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You can just do a "ls /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/" to see whats available.
 
/usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ does not exist on my system.
Debootstrap is installed.
 
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