On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:09:39PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > There are currently some scripts on www-master updating people.names file > > with maintainer names, packages, and homepages. I'd like to: > > > > * fix them to use an updated set of homepages, using that data acquired > > from LDAP > > * get them to run on the normal 6-hourly run > > > > The cron/scripts_weekly/people/people.pl operates on > > cron/scripts_weekly/people/homepages file, but it seems it could use > > cron/scripts_weekly/homepages.dat with only minor adjustments. > > I'd like to switch everything to use apt-cache for extracting package > information. This couldn't be done before, because we needed features > in potato's version of apt (which wouldn't compile on slink).
So you'd like to get apt-cache to read the downloaded Packages files and produce results per-maintainer? I think we could do it with just grep-dctrl or dlocate. > We also need to think about how the info currently on the people page is > organized. It makes the most sense to me that it and the info on > db.debian.org be combined. One idea is to have a script that searches on > maintainers and the result page lists the packages maintained and the > public info in the ldap database. If the data from db.d.o would be used, why not have it on there? I don't have access to that, tho... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
