On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
The plan is to switch to Roger Leigh's work in UDD as well, but someone
needs to do the work, and unfortunately, i'm very busy currently. See
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rleigh/sbuild.git;a=tree;f=db;hb=81fd39259953853632a7d0e2198cfc745d270fe3
for his code.
Did somebody just asked Roger whether he might volunteer?
Feel free to commit ; it can't break anything if it's not executed on
udd.debian.org.
OK, just commited what seems to look close to finished. I just had a
discussion with Grisu who considers to add a version field to the DDTP
translation files which makes things much more simple for the gatherer
because the package version has to be used as part of the key for a
description translation. Once this is done the DDTP gatherer could be
tested on the real UDD.
The status of ftpnew gatherer is lagging behind a bit. I submitted a
patch to DAK to produce RFC 822 files in addition to html pages. I'm
waiting currently for comments. In parallel I wrote a parser for the
quite structured HTML which is working reasonably as well but I did some
rewriting / simplification of my code. It might last 2-3 weeks until
something will be submitted.
To go further into this direction I have picked up Lucas' idea about
adding information about Blends to UDD as well. When I talked with
Lucas at DebConf 8 about this topic I was hesitant because I was unsure
about the "universal" character of this kind of information. But
considering the problem from a Blend related point of view it has
some real power and I would like to hear your opinion about this. Here
is a raw proposal about the structure:
-- Blends
CREATE TABLE blends (
blend text, -- 'debian-med', 'debian-edu', ...
distribution text, -- == 'debian'
release text, -- ('stable', 'testing', 'sid', 'vcs'
version text,
tasks text,
homepage text, -- general homepage for instance on www.debian.org,
wiki, etc.
projectname text, -- 'Debian Med', 'Debian Edu', ...
projecturl text, -- technical web site on alioth
projectlist text, -- mailing list of project
pkglist text, -- mailing list for packaging issues
PRIMARY KEY (blend, distribution, release, version)
);
CREATE TABLE tasks (
blend text,
task text,
version text,
metapackage text,
description text,
long_description text,
PRIMARY KEY (blend, task, version)
);
CREATE TABLE taskdependencies (
blend text,
task text,
pkg text,
dependency text, -- 'Depends', 'Recommends', 'Suggests',
'Conflicts', ...
metadepends boolean DEFAULT 'f', -- true if depends from other
metapackage
PRIMARY KEY (blend, )
);
For sure I'd volunteer to write a gatherer. I would see several applications
for use of this information - but what do you think whether it is apropriate
for UDD or not?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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