Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2017-04-21 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Thanks for the details, everyone. I’ll have a look at updating manpages.d.o to use the ftp-master API and will report back on how that goes. On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 09:28 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > pabs, what’s the current status on t

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2017-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 09:28 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > pabs, what’s the current status on this? Mostly at the 'collecting information' stage; about what hard-coding exists and what requirements there might be etc. > AFAICT, you mentioned you wanted to come up with a spec on the > Reposit

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2017-04-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 09:28 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > pabs, what’s the current status on this? AFAICT, you mentioned you > wanted to come up with a spec on the RepositoryFormat wiki page. I > don’t > see that on the RepositoryFormat wiki page yet. > > Is there any way to help? > > I

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2017-04-21 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hey, pabs, what’s the current status on this? AFAICT, you mentioned you wanted to come up with a spec on the RepositoryFormat wiki page. I don’t see that on the RepositoryFormat wiki page yet. Is there any way to help? I’m also interested in this issue due to hardcoding in manpages.d.o, which I’

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2015-05-11 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 15:24:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code > aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). > T

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13700 March 1977, Paul Wise wrote: >> If we export it archive side it (IMO) ends up on the mirror, so we can >> either just sign it with the archive keys and put the sig beside it, or >> have the files listed in Release files. I prefer Release files. > The problem is the files I propose are one

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > ftp-masters seem to be open to the idea but want a spec for what data > needs to be exported where. > > I would like to invite service maintainers and maintainers of derivative > distros to document what info they hard-code from the Debian archive and > thei

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 08:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Tagged the bug moreinfo, over the next months I will look at existing > hardcoding, consult with service maintainers and try to come up with a > spec on the RepositoryFormat page about what data is needed. ftp-masters seem to be open to the id

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Glad to have a positive response from ftpmaster, thanks! On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 22:15 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > If we export it archive side it (IMO) ends up on the mirror, so we can > either just sign it with the archive keys and put the sig beside it, or > have t

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 18:12 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm confused about this. We have several additional archives ATM, for > instance security and lts. Does the above mean that the maintainer of an > infrastructure piece that spans multiple archives will have to > separately retrieve the

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-09-14 15:08 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise : > [Drop the bug since it seems OT there] > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> we have the python-distro-info package which at least holds some of that >> info. >> >> how/where would you see that in your "picture"? > > That has the sa

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13698 March 1977, Paul Wise wrote: > Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code > aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). > This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, > we have lots of places that need to be upda

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Generated on a per-repository basis so that consumers get the data >> they are interested in. Here I mean one for ftp.d.o/debian and one for >> each of the archive.d.o/* repositories. > I'm confused about this. We have several additional archives ATM, for > instance security and lts. lts is no

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 03:24:58PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code > aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). > This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, > we have lots of places

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
[Drop the bug since it seems OT there] On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > we have the python-distro-info package which at least holds some of that info. > > how/where would you see that in your "picture"? That has the same problem; it hardcodes information about the archive

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Paul, On Samstag, 13. September 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code > aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). > This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, > we have lots of places

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-13 Thread Paul Wise
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, we