Hi, I just wanted to update the bug report (and the -www team) on the status of the manpages.debian.net interface.
The current status is as follows: - a searchable manpage interface is now available and running at a DSA-administered machine. It is available at http://manpages.debian.net/ and rebuilds the manpage contents periodically (currently monthly) - the interface is a perl CGI script, source can be directly obtained from http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi/source and the repository used to track its changes is available in SVN: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/ddp/man-cgi/ - the manpage interface allows users to search by name, distribution and section - in addition links like http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/dpkg are rewrite to build a search for a specific manpage in a specific section. This is, I believe, used by wiki.debian.org In the backend, an extraction tool (see http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/ddp/man-cgi/extractor/) parses all the packages in the archive and extracts the manpage files to a pool-like structure. The interface, on the other hand, is currently is lacking a way to do a search by package names, and the underlying content is not available. If required: - the content (as I said following a pool structure) could be exposed for direct access and download of the original manpages, - searchs through package names could be implemented by building a package index I'm not sure if this last two items are required from packages.debian.org to make a link to manpages.debian.net. Could someone clarify what are the interface requirements from the packages.debian.org perspective? Anyway, I would need help to implement the above and would accept any patches that improve the existing interface. Regards Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org