Hello, On 2020-10-28 17:57, Felix Lechner wrote: > Lintian does not presently utilize any network resources, and while > that may change in the future, it would be the wrong way forward. It > makes no sense for Lintian to query the archive for valid sections for > every invocation.
I agree. > Ideally, the file from FTP Master that is described below would be > packaged and backported as needed. It is probably not updated often. I > asked Ganneff about this on #debian-ftp but have not heard back. Maybe > it could also be packaged together with other Debian data, such as > policy versions, which are being worked on in this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968154#52 > > Packaging such data for Debian is also found in other areas, for > example in 'dns-root-data'. I completely support packaging sections.822 into some data package so as lintian and possibly other tools could read it without using network. > An alternative would be update ./data in our repo for each new > release, but that data remains static for each release. We keep > scripts for such updates in ./private. Contributions are welcome. If packaging sections.822 is not an option, this alternative could work. I used the following command in 9904e258: curl -sSL https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822 \ | grep ^Section: | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | grep -v / \ | sort > data/fields/archive-sections Best, Andrius
