Hello everybody, sorry for the longish title... In brief, some years ago I was aiming at gathering debian/upstream/metadata files from the VCS in which each source packages is stored, and mirror them in a central repository easily accessible.
As a repository I chose the collab-qa Subversion repository on Alioth. And for the gathering I was relying on a service that listened to the emails posted on the debian-devel-changes, fetched the metadata file from the package's VCS if available, and commited it in the collab-qa repository. There are two reasons why I would like to interrupt this experiment (if not abandonning it). 1) Alioth is going down soon. 2) The gatherer I wrote in Perl (umegaya) had a bug that I never managed to track down, and my attempts to rewrite it in Haskell failed (I never found enough time to excell in Haskell...). At the moment, the PTS points to files in the collab-qa repository via Alioth' viewvc browser. Can somebody disable the links ? The repository is completely outdated anyway. I plan to "svn rm" the packages-metadata directory in collab-qa. Would that cause any trouble to somebody ? With our brand new GitLab forge and its continuous integration system, there may be something to do in the future. But I do not have the time yet. Anbody interested in gathering the debian/upstream/metadata files somewhere is welcome ! Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
