Package: ftp.debian.org,bugs.debian.org
Severity: minor
Hi,
I've noticed that the pseudo-packages.{maintainers,description} files
don't serve any particular purpose in dak on ries - there's a file
scripts/debian/mkmaintainers which does:
nonusmaint="$base/misc/Maintainers_Versions-non-US"
if wget -T15 -q -O Maintainers_Versions-non-US.gz
http://non-us.debian.org/indices-non-US/Maintainers_Versions.gz; then
[...]
fi
cd $indices
dak make-maintainers $nonusmaint $configdir/pseudo-packages.maintainers | [...]
It just relies on the existence of that file, but it doesn't really care
where it came from - the non-US maintainers file is fetched from that
archive, so the analogous could easily be done with
pseudo-packages.maintainers. Also, this is an internal Debian file,
so it's good for dak in general to be able to get rid of it.
So, I propose that we:
* make the BTS hold the authoritative copyand export it via e.g.
http://bugs.debian.org/pseudo-packages.{maintainers,description}
(which I've just done)
* in case something other than the BTS actually uses those entries in
the debian/indices/Maintainers files, change the above script to have:
pseudomaint="$base/misc/pseudo-packages.maintainers"
wget -T15 -q -O $pseudomaint
http://bugs.debian.org/pseudo-packages.maintainers
dak make-maintainers $nonusmaint $pseudomaint | [...]
* import the file into the version control system of the BTS,
remove config/debian/pseudo-packages.* from dak and its version control
* change the BTS scripts which build its maintainer indices to
include the local file without previously rsyncing it off ftp-master
* change the BTS the web site to fetch the files via HTTP rather than rsync
* remove the [masterfiles] rsyncd module from ftp-master
* (kick the reportbug maintainer to have reportbugs around the world
allow for the list of pseudo-packages to be updated in case it's
out of date by e.g. over a year :)
TIA.
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