Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Daniel Lintott wrote: > Okay... It took a bit of thinking of how to work it, but I've come up > with a working solution that caches the file list for each project > requested. There was some discussion on IRC about the problem and a caching proxy was suggested ins

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2014-07-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated

2014-07-21 Thread Daniel Lintott
Control: -1 + patch On 21/07/14 14:58, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 15:39 +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > >> Are we really consuming so much bandwidth for that feature? I assume >> this will happen each time a user or a daemon wants to check a >> particular package. I'm not convinced

Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 15:39 +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Are we really consuming so much bandwidth for that feature? I assume > this will happen each time a user or a daemon wants to check a > particular package. I'm not convinced this is worth especially they ask > for a cache of 1 hour, do w

Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated

2014-07-21 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Hi All, On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 11:02 +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 21/07/14 04:11, Paul Wise wrote: > > Unfortunately the final word on that is that Debian needs to replace > > our current redirector with one based on the RSS feature and also to I honestly was expecting such answer! > > add a

Re: Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated

2014-07-21 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Daniel, many thanks for your work on this! > It should definitely be possible to add a caching mechanism to the the > new redirector, currently I have a couple of ideas on this but both have > drawbacks. > > 1. Use a Berkeley DB to store the retrieved data, similar to what is > currently done

Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated

2014-07-21 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 21/07/14 04:11, Paul Wise wrote: > Unfortunately the final word on that is that Debian needs to replace > our current redirector with one based on the RSS feature and also to > add a cache mechanism (they suggested a 1 hour cache time) so that we > don't overload the RSS feature. > > Do you thi

Bug#755066: Restore Python 3 compatibility and ensure we keep it in the future

2014-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Raphaƫl Hertzog wrote: > In its initial development phase, we ensured that the codebase would work > well with Python 3. Unfortunately nobody cared since then and now we have > a lot of failing tests when we run it with Python 3. To make it easier to test in the various combin