Hi, On 05/21/2015 11:21 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I noticed that the ftpnew gatherer for UDD is currently broken. The > reason is that it is usually fetching files via > > wget -q -r -N --level=2 --no-parent --no-directories > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/ [...] > It seems it is forbidden to read the web dir directly. Any reason for > this and if it is intentional what would be the alternative to fetch > data about packages in new?
I don't know exactly why this changed (maybe different default in Apache?), but scraping web pages seems a suboptimal way to gather information. There is [1] with machine-readable information about packages in NEW. Ansgar [1] <https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/555dac8b.5070...@debian.org
