-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andreas,
> 1. Provide the missing information in the Packages.gz files > anyway. Joerg, I have no idea how compley to implement > this might be or what chances to break something might > exist. > 2. We move English translations from Translation-en.bz2 > to the packages table making sure that all existing UDD > applications will work immediately again. > 3. We drop long_description field from packages table now > and *calculate* the md5 sums from long_escription for those > releases where it is missing and keep all long_descriptions > inside the ddtp table. My feeling is that our long term aim should be to have the long description only in the ddtp table. This is a slightly-more-normalised form for the database which will help reduce the size of the tables and, since the long description is unused in most queries to UDD, that will help with performance. It's also a data structure that, in the long term, more closely reflects the data sources being included which has been a general UDD principle over the years. So, if that's where we want to end up in the long run, I reckon that we should just do it now. We only need a small amount of code to get it to work for squeeze (and lenny, for however long that will remain in UDD) and in ~2 years' time we can drop that too. I'm happy to look at the packages gatherer and have it (optionally) feed in the long description and the appropriate md5 into ddtp. Things that use the description from UDD will need to learn to get them from ddtp rather than packages -- I'm happy to help with that but I don't know what uses the description at all anyway. cheers Stuart - -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8wYZQACgkQn+i4zXHF0ajiwACgo84GWyp+ZvN/D6b9BFuZvdUv x5EAnAiy7L8iKUzfStYPcDr1w9ryvs+/ =0zFq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jgpnj6$gjo$1...@dough.gmane.org
