On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:30:00AM +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yesterday, I wrote a script that scans our whole archive for .dsc files > > (Debian source package description files) and outputs some statistics > > regarding the `Standards-Version' fields, that is, which policy version > > the packages "claim" to comply with (according to the maintainer). > > Now you are at it, I suggest that you also scan the archive for packages > that fails to include a "Section" and/or "Priority" field. It is far > too many, and it is quite annoying.
This has reminded me about something that really bugs me :-( I'm writing a program so that I can so all my downloading at work. However I hit a problem - I cannot tell which packages are in non-us (for which I go to a different, slower, site). Is there a way to handle this (and similarly for experimental etc.)? It would be nice to be able to look at a "Distribution:" field and a "Filename:" field to find out exactly where a package is. And now for some optimisation. My program (and dpkg too I imagine) expects each package in available (and status) to be in a paragraph, but it imposes no restriction on the formatting of that paragraph. I wonder what the speed-up would be if we imposed an ordering on the paragraphs (note that this would *not* prevent future expansion). All those reg-exps can't be as efficient as a search for a specific string. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
