Hi Bryce and Skia, On 3/17/25 03:22 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
A few people have mentioned having problems using rmadison recently, and enquired about a little reimplementation I made a bit ago. I figure in case others are interested I'd throw out a PSA about it:https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+git/ubuntu-helpers/tree/bryce/pkg-versions It is a lot faster (for me) than rmadison, because it pulls data from qa.debian.org rather than people.canonical.com; the former server is in the PNW near me. European folks have not seen this performance benefit, so YMMV. The script is written in Bash, rather than Perl as rmadison is. It requires curl and distro-info as dependencies, but those should already be on everyone's system, so you should be able to plop the script somewhere in your $PATH, and go.
No qualms, I appreciate the work, but as a long-term goal, we might want to discuss porting to a compiled language. I don't want the pitchforks and torches, so I won't go as far as to boldly suggest Rust, so I'll say C++.
I've also changed the default output to be more immediately useful for
my own needs: It includes Debian package versions, and excludes older
ESM releases. Example output:
$ pkg-versions dovecot
### Debian ###
dovecot | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1 | bookworm-security
dovecot | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1 | bookworm
dovecot | 1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1~bpo12+1 | bookworm-backports
dovecot | 1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1 | trixie
dovecot | 1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1 | sid
dovecot | 1:2.4.0+dfsg1-1~exp3 | experimental
dovecot | 1:2.4.0+dfsg1-1~exp4 | experimental
### Ubuntu ###
dovecot | 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3 | focal
dovecot | 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7 | focal-security
dovecot | 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7 | focal-updates
dovecot | 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2 | jammy
dovecot | 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 | jammy-security
dovecot | 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 | jammy-updates
dovecot | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu5 | noble
dovecot | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu6 | noble-security
dovecot | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2ubuntu6 | noble-updates
dovecot | 1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 | oracular
dovecot | 1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 | plucky
There's just one command line option, --devel, which limits to just the
devel release and debian, useful for checking for new syncs/merges:
$ ~/bin/pkg-versions openldap --devel
openldap | 2.5.19+dfsg-1 | sid
openldap | 2.6.9+dfsg-2 | sid
openldap | 2.6.9+dfsg-1~exp2ubuntu1 | plucky
It's pretty bare bones beyond that; I've not implemented the many other
options and functionalities that rmadison provides. Patches are welcome
though, and I'll take feature requests. There's been one request to add
support for looking up binary packages.
Anyway, hope pkg-versions is helpful and I'd love to hear if it is.
I can think of a few bugs that could be addressed by this long-term: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=ubuntu-dev-tools I still need to take some time to investigate this deeply, but you've piqued my interest, and I'd love to hear a followup soon. On 3/18/25 10:59 AM, Florent 'Skia' Jacquet wrote: > Le 17/03/2025 Γ 21:22, Bryce Harrington a Γ©crit : >> Anyway, hope pkg-versions is helpful and I'd love to hear if it is. > > Yes it is, thank you very much! Here, have some fast emojis: β‘πποΈ β‘πποΈ πππ > I'd say it's worth being more broadly pushed to `ubuntu-dev-tools` or else, but I'll let you be the judge of that. Strong +1. Thanks, -- Simon Quigley si...@tsimonq2.net @tsimonq2:ubuntu.com on Matrix tsimonq2 on LiberaChat and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4
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