On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > These are the list of ports that I see: > > I would strongly suggest not hardcoding this list and instead > harvesting the Architecture fields of the Release files for oldstable > -> experimental on ftp.d.o, ftp.d-p.o and maybe archive.d.o. > > We have made this mistake and similar ones (usually hardcoding release > codenames) in the QA infrastructure and it has bitten us hard in the > past. Lets not make that mistake here.
The list will be hardcoded, because it has to live in the Debbugs configuration file, and tags shouldn't disappear just because debian-ports or debian has dropped an architecture. That said, I was planning on setting it up so that I at least was notified when the set from cannonical location changed. > The release files are the closest to a canonical list of ports. There > are other ports out there not maintained on d-p.o (like the Interix or > Solaris ones for example) but I don't think we need to bother about > those until they move closer to Debian. OK. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131124004708.gc7...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
