Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > I'm with pabs about integrating it to qa.d.o, sounds really helpful :) > Btw, I've just checked a few links reported as error 500 and some seem > to not present any problem. See: > http://sdl.perl.org/ > http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/ > http://www.kuwata-lab.com

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi Simon, On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:42:02PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote: > Hi, > > after getting frustrated by broken links in some package > descriptions, i hacked up a script to check for broken links in the > packages descriptions. > > (see http://simon.familiekainz.at/dropbox/errs.html, based

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Simon Kainz
On 04/26/12 12:28, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Simon Kainz wrote: > >> Well, currently i only check the "Homepage" fields. I thought about the >> other links as well, but processing the Homepage entries seemed to me a >> first reasonable step. Processing the other URLs is s

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Simon Kainz wrote: > Some more detail: Currently it is a mix of bash scripts, awk, and wget > --spider to check if i get something else than 200 OK bakc from the > server. I process /var/lib/apt/lists/... but i think i should use > grep-aptavail to process the fres

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Simon Kainz wrote: > Well, currently i only check the "Homepage" fields. I thought about the > other links as well, but processing the Homepage entries seemed to me a > first reasonable step. Processing the other URLs is surely doable. Ok. > I think I will restru

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Simon Kainz
On 04/26/12 03:26, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Simon Kainz wrote: > >> after getting frustrated by broken links in some package descriptions, i >> hacked up a script to check for broken links in the packages descriptions. >> >> (see http://simon.familiekainz.at/dropbox/errs