Bug#845297: Bug #845297: Website transition from CVS to Git

2018-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:06 PM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:

> I have some questions:
> 1.- would the cvs2git script allow incremental updates?

Shouldn't be necessary, I thought we would do a one-off conversion once ready.

> wouldn't make more sense to avoid the extra commits related to the conversion?

I'd rather preserve the script used to do the conversion.

> 2.- Does anybody prefer that I upload this repo to
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/webwml too?

Seems better to make it obvious these are test conversions.

> 3.- Which are the next steps? (I guess attack the Perl scripts

I think I wrote some in an earlier mail, but yes the Perl scripts.

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Bug#893397: adapt the cron scripts to use http:// instead of ftp://

2018-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> One negative point of above approach is that it always downloads doc deb
> packages even if there are no changes.

This will prevent downloading the same package twice:

chdist apt old install --download-only emacsen-common

> Also unpacking code is still complicated to make it future proof.

Hmm, do you have any more details? Is dpkg -x not enough?

> Then I thought it may be good idea to create very small Debian unstable
> chroot.  Then install pertinent doc packages.  For old deb from
> snapshot, we can wget and dpkg -i.  Then this chroot can be updated and
> dist-upgraded.  This causes to download all base package updates but
> skips repeated download of doc packages.  Hmmm... which is worse?

A chroot needs root so probably isn't going to work here.

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Bug#893798: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2018-03-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org

Bad news for
https://www.debian.org/users/com/dreamhost :
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/change-is-in-the-air-dreamhost-upgrades/

So please remove it.