Package: src:distro-info-data
Severity: normal

People have been scraping the distro-info-data data from Salsa, which
has caused abuse concerns for Salsa admins. Some known scrapers have
been blocked.

A search of GitHub shows many repos that reference this data:
https://github.com/search?p=3&q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fsalsa.debian.org%2Fdebian%2Fdistro-info-data%22&type=Code

Other known bugs:

https://github.com/hobbyquaker/check_os_release/issues/2

We should probably provide this data on a public http interface.

GitHub pages on salsa would probably be the simplest solution for now.
The URLs wouldn't be pretty, though.

SR

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