Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Erm, I didn't want to do that, because it'll open up base/ for everyone > to crawl, including spambots. And all the mails are there without any > headers removed, including internal PTS addresses that should not be > exposed, to avoid spam causing

Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 07:16:49PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > I suppose frankie was speaking about something like a SOAP interface or > > > alike, > > > in order to be able to query the PTS remotely, within a script. > > > > Personally

Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > I suppose frankie was speaking about something like a SOAP interface or > > alike, > > in order to be able to query the PTS remotely, within a script. > > Personally I think SOAP is overrated, overhyped, or both. But as the PTS > uses XML to s

Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:29:29PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > That reminds me: is there a webservice thought for PTS? I think it could > > > be very useful f

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > That reminds me: is there a webservice thought for PTS? I think it could > > be very useful for remote scripting... > > What do you mean, 'webservice'? PTS *is* a w

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > That reminds me: is there a webservice thought for PTS? I think it could > be very useful for remote scripting... What do you mean, 'webservice'? PTS *is* a webservice (next to also being a email service, that actually is

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:02:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Marc Haber: > >> > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > >> > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:02:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation > >> in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why). > > Is

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Marc Haber: >> > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf >> > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system >> > without root privileges. >> >> The secure-t

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:39:28AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote: > >Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > >syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system > >without root privileges. Additionally, parsing

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system > > without root privileges. > > The secure-testing archive contains

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:14 AM, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >> Use http://qa.debian.org/data/ddpo/ddpo_packages, the 2nd and 3rd >> field in the [foo,bar,baz,.] bit are testing and unstable >> respective

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Use http://qa.debian.org/data/ddpo/ddpo_packages, the 2nd and 3rd field > in the [foo,bar,baz,.] bit are testing and unstable respectively. That's fully 404 compliant. Greetings Marc --

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adeodato Simó: >> The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation >> in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why). > > Ooh, with pdiff support? Yes, of course. It only mirrors individual files and it's not terribly efficient -- a better implementation

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Florian Weimer [Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:47:59 +0100]: > * Marc Haber: > >> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in > >> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive > >> metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space > >> c

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm all for a CSS based layout. For automated use of the data, however, > wouldn't it make sense to provide some kind of interface that is > suitable for automated use? XML-RPC, or whatever, I'm not familiar with > the technologies in question. An alter

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote: Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system without root privileges. Additionally, parsing the Sources file is another challenge. And again additionally, I don'

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/02/06 at 09:43 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Marc Haber: > > > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to > > > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a > > > host that doe

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: >> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in >> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive >> metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space >> consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either. > > Having never r

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to > > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a > > host that doesn't have a local archive. > > With the arrivale of Pac

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a > host that doesn't have a local archive. With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in terms of network bandwidth) to

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:32:57PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Marc Haber: > > > the output of the PTS > > > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a > > > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. > >

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2006-01-31 kello 22:32 +0100, Marc Haber kirjoitti: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Marc Haber: > > > the output of the PTS > > > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a > > > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. > > > >

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > the output of the PTS > > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a > > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. > > Why do you want to parse it in the first place? I want to check whet

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: > the output of the PTS > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Why do you want to parse it in the first place? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-19 Thread Marc Haber
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, the output of the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Please consider converting to CSS. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT pre