On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:18:11AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > I have some questions about packages.debian.org. > > 1.) who is the webmaster of packages.debian.org? > (btw: [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't work...)
Why should it work? The web pages say quite clearly where to find contact information, and you seem to have managed to find it, too :) > 2.) I put a _test_ page of packages.debian.org with support of > translated package description on > http://ddtp.debian.org/packages.debian.org > can we add something like that on packages.debian.org? > > (On the real page we shouldn't add a own form per language. We > should add a new 'Language' tag on the form. For this we must change > the cgi and add a new option 'lang=XX_XX', but I don't know phyton.) It can be done... though I'd prefer the automatic way, using content negotiation, like Tomohiro suggested. > 3.) packages.debian.org use now static web pages for all the packages. > I know the advantages of static pages, but is this usefull for > _this_ pages. > > IMHO packages.debian.org is not mirrored (like www.debian.org) and > if we add some languages to packages.debian.org we need more disk > space. > > Maybe a CGI is better. Comments? Can you calculate or at least estimate how much CPU and RAM would it take to run it through a CGI (or PHP or whatever)? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
