Re: packages.debian.org

[Kevin Price]

Kevin Price schrieb:
> sid is currently missing on packages.debian.org.

It's back again. :-)

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[Kevin Price]

Hi all,

sid is currently missing on packages.debian.org.
Pleas Cc me. (not on list)

best regards
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Bug#472490: packages.debian.org volatile archive referenced incorrectly

[Kevin Price]

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: minor

Hi!

Thank you very much for rebuilding packages.debian.org last year. Even
before that it was a very useful tool. The rebuild made it so much
better still. I was greatly impressed by such a high quality tool.

However, let me suggest one slight improvement: The download page of a
volatile package, for instance

  http://packages.debian.org/etch-volatile/amd64/clamav/download

says to insert this into my sources.list:

  deb http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile etch-volatile main
^^^
which will lead to the following error:

  Failed to fetch
http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile/dists/etch-volatile/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 404 Not Found

I have found the correct entry in sources.list to be:

  deb http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile etch/volatile main
^^^
I can't tell if this error is caused by a programming bug or bad data.
Either way I suggest to correct it, if it can easily be done.

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Kevin Price
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[Kevin Price]

Hi,

I have two suggestions to make about improving packages.debian.org. I find 
myself using it quite much, and it is very well done. I really missed it in the 
time after the attack last year. Thanks for getting it back up.


1. In every binary package page the dependencies are listed as
"depends"
"recommended"
"suggested"

What is this "time warp" for? I suggest to use consistent grammar and change 
them all to simple present.


2. From  I get a nice page including all 
distributions and the sources. But the links to the binaries lead only to some 
intermediate page, where the link might point directly to the goal.


Thanks for your attention. brgds
  Kevin

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