On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 08:00:09PM +0000, Simon Quigley wrote: > 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++.
Getting this into an object-oriented language also occurred to me, though as a lot of Ubuntu's tooling has been in Python that seems the more logical choice. I've worked on enough C/C++ projects to be comfortable with that, but with launchpadlib being in python that's where the synergy opportunities are. C.f. Robie's suggestions elsewhere in this thread for instance. > > 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 > Not spotting the ones you may have in mind; which were you thinking of? > 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. > Sure! Thanks for the feedback. > 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 for the invitation, I do need to think about better housing for this script. I should take into account ppa-dev-tools and some other tools; I'm not sure if they'd overclutter ubuntu-dev-tools though. Bryce > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > wsF5BAABCAAjFiEEXHq+og+GMEWcyMi14n8s+EWML6QFAmfZ0MkFAwAAAAAACgkQ4n8s+EWML6TQ > 2g//e3EiOi9gs4jc1bkrLWmcO/xxHkKW1MfwEw5pqbFkaVyhm3M6xOcv2r7m57WNw0d97JdhJoeW > qaUmVDQPlnT4f7feKoHF422AGNaucwcnJlQ+l8E5mEKIbw8Ry5x9cXEKu7YvAnStIo04XHn08Z8c > DHt9C0E9DTS8Lh7rE0Df3GtGAzRsWwhrUc7mDoqEqKTV9TApHiwB2KTjyJ0z0nUxqUFS873ZeK5e > XoVUwc1Re5uZIeYihcP8GigdukDb+bt13zvB3+HNCX/JdY3iHhuyaSDf9ashNpl98L5Zukeoeg6v > Bj+5e72W6u1H0/+zOHC5KbwHQ7f/WEwzO2wcwsgG90b55Srtwz+T7G1Tc/WeIEKqY5hA88UW4FPH > b8Ns/ZgA9KeVoafG2VN5OqFrgNGMToclVwKVHxg7KJA1JrJ6YUi+D5+yyPVATduz9jYwjAvJjWdo > 0YtaYSzbVUJe8uD1p4KL+HpsTc5nZgBnQGSJGuzuOf/MJa/K4o/0hSZ5+4ul4lfeE8ivmVnAuhtH > P5rY/Ua3TCIQuEV0J9bdaPp47hREsVC6En+nS2IAIxzwERL6iBFNjtiqVyT89L8zHeQs6Fs/Nuoz > +0OInbQevU3eMhfVylY4/6dN5o+6wEqm+36hd4YXJvEBAmKaUduuow1FqIXTMfhSGtG8/hXGf9+z > c3A= > =8gde > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
