Control: reassign -1 distro-info-data On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:56:39PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Package: src:distro-info > Severity: wishlist > > This is for bullseye, but filing it now, so we can do it at the > start of the quarter > > python-apt currently ships various data files detailing the available > distributions: > > https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/python-apt/tree/master/data/templates > > The .info.in are templates that get translations merged in at build-time. > > I'd like to drop those files from python-apt to reduce the number of > packages that need an update for a new release, and I think it makes > sense to ship them in distro-info, somewhere, likely in distro-info-data. > > This info also includes mirror lists, which need occasional updates, and > having that in distro-info-data certainly makes it easier to update those > lists more frequently, as it's kind of a waste to do a python-apt update > just for that.
I've now made python-apt fill in most stuff from the csv files in distro-info-data in https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/python-apt/-/merge_requests/52/ so it does not need updates for new releases anymore. That said, getting rid of that logic in there and moving that data to distro-info-data is still welcome. That said, we do want the mirror lists to move out of the package and into dists/ at some point too, so there won't be much stuff that needs updates. Reassigning to proper package. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
