Le Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:23:47PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > Just to make sure I understood the suggestion correctly: You want to > create a Git repository keeping *copies* of the debian/upstream files > which are stored currently in VCSes of packages? Yes, this would very > easily solve my problem to gather the original information for UDD. > Something like a directory layout > > <packagename>/upstream > > or also > > <packagename>.upstream > > in a Git repository would be a very cool thing and very easy to fetch > for UDD. I'd love to see this available soonish.
Hi Andreas, perhaps surprisingly, I am considering Subversion in collab-maint for the task. I really like the "svn cat" command, that fetches a file without needing a checkout or a web frontend, and in that case it may be useful sometimes. I think that for each package where I attempt to download the upstream file, I will also download the copyright file. This will help to see how the system behaves with a higher-coverage resource. For the layout, I would do something like /upstream/packagename and /copyright/packagename, or even /upstream/pool/packagename and /copyright/pool/packagename, where pool would reflect the same subdirectories as in the Debian archive. My incursions in the Lintian lab, or simply each time I go trough /usr/share/doc on my computer, showed me that default linux installations are not very comfortable with directories in wich there are thousands of files. I will organise the gathering through Umegaya, that is, mostly based on the VCS URL fields, plus some heuristics for Debian Med repositories. Since the files will be stored in a VCS, it will be easy to complement or replace the system later without changing the layout of how and where the files are provided. Any comment on the VCS and the layout ? I am very flexible on this. Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
