On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:23:56 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > I also working on a tool that tries checking (and suggest updates) to a given > list of URLs: bad links, different cases of redirections, replacing http by > https, etc.
That sounds like what duck is doing: http://duck.debian.net/ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/duck Ah, you know it already :) > I know that there is DUCK but the current result of my tool does not agree > with > the results displayed by DUCK regarding at least the homepages. > My tool is running on all the Sid entries in UDD. > Also http://duck.debian.net/sourcepackages.txt is empty, is this a bug? Maybe ask Simon, the duck maintainer? > Well, how could I consider a contribution to Debian if this should be the > case? > Report a bug to each source packages after a human check from my side (if not > to > many!)? > Working on DUCK? > Improve lintian / lintian-brush? > ... I think improving existing tools like duck (or lintian) would make more sense than inventing new ones. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #76: Unoptimized hard drive