Package: piuparts Severity: wishlist This is in relation to https://bugs.debian.org/850917, where we added code to log update-alternatives calls.
Now that the calls are logged, we need to somehow make Debiman aware of the calls. To that end, I wrote a program which will read all available logs, parse all LOG-ALTERNATIVES lines, and generate a JSON file with the links created by the various binary packages. Find the source of that program at https://github.com/Debian/debiman/blob/b4d79f84b34abfc59effcd85c78541ce8f572b4b/cmd/debiman-piuparts-distill/piuparts.go I then ran the program like so on piuparts.debian.org: % debiman-piuparts-distill \ -logs_dir=/srv/piuparts.debian.org/htdocs/stretch \ -output=debiman/testing.json.gz % debiman-piuparts-distill \ -logs_dir=/srv/piuparts.debian.org/htdocs/sid \ -output=debiman/unstable.json.gz % debiman-piuparts-distill \ -logs_dir=/srv/piuparts.debian.org/htdocs/experimental \ -output=debiman/experimental.json.gz % debiman-piuparts-distill \ -logs_dir=/srv/piuparts.debian.org/htdocs/jessie \ -output=debiman/stable.json.gz I then copied debiman/*.json.gz over to manziarly.debian.org, re-generated the entire site, and slave alternative manpages now work as expected :). Obviously, the above was a one-off manual effort, so now we should discuss how we’d like to set things up for a more permanent export. Here’s a strawman proposal. We could: 1. Add a crontab entry, which triggers a shell script, which will update debiman-piuparts-distill, then run it on the logs directories. 2. Store the resulting *.json.gz files in a directory called /srv/piuparts.debian.org/htdocs/for-manpages.d.o 3. Download the files via HTTPS on manziarly.d.o. Step ① requires installing the Go compiler (https://packages.debian.org/stretch/golang-go) on piuparts.d.o. We could avoid this if we’re all okay with just copying the debiman-piuparts-distill binary onto piuparts.d.o, but referring to e.g. /home/stapelberg/debiman-piuparts-distill from a cronjob within the piuparts git repository feels somewhat unclean. Any thoughts? Would you be okay with my strawman? If so, I’ll prepare a patch.
