On Monday 08 June 2015 10:07:40 Maximiliano Curia wrote: > Since you ask about it, the tool used in Debian to fetch upstream releases > (uscan and watch files) expects to be able to fetch a list of files with a > single request (something like https://pypi.python.org/simple/isodate/), so > it better for us to have all the releases of the same package in the same > subdir. > > The current layout of releases: > http://download.kde.org/(?:un)?stable/frameworks/([\d.]+)/kimap-([\d.]+\.tar > \.xz > > Works only for the latest release, but is not able to fetch a particular > release, and it will require to convert this simple tool into a full pledged > crawler.
Hmm this sounds like a bug or missing feature in the tool you're using. Surely it could be fixed/extended to be able to fetch stuff from a different directory for past releases. > So, it would be better for Debian if the releases are alternatively > distributed in a layout of the form: > http://download.kde.org/simple/kimap/kimap-([\d.]+)\.tar.xz This would make it very hard for other people who can currently just grab all of KF x.y from a single directory. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team