[ Forwarded message from David Mentre, which for some yet to be discovered reasons is unable to post to Debian OCaml Maint list. David: of course until the problem is solved feel free to Cc me on your replies, I'll proxy them to the list ]
----- Forwarded message from David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:56 +0200 From: David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Request for comment: status of Ubuntu's packages Hello, I've tried to adapt the web page showing status of OCaml packages on Debian to Ubuntu. I've tried two approaches: 1. A page with only Ubuntu packages. This is patch ocaml-debian-status-ubuntu-only.patch attached. Sample: http://bentobako.org/tmp/ubuntu-only/debian-ocaml-status.html 2. A page with mixed Debian and Ubuntu packages. This is patch ocaml-debian-status-mixed.patch attached[1]. Sample: http://bentobako.org/tmp/mixed/debian-ocaml-status.html In fact, I'm not satisfied with both approaches. The first one is cleaner: I've taken care of putting the right Launchpad link for the source package and the Intrepid packages are not masked by testing ones. But is lacks comparison with Debian packages. The mixed approach offers comparison between Debian and Ubuntu packages, but the policy "only the "best" version, i.e. the one nearest to a release, is reported" makes most of Intrepid packages masked by testing. Moreover, there is probably the equivalent of testing/unstable/experimental for hardy, intrepid, ... This is not integrated yet. I'm wondering if it would not be better to represent quintuplets (source, ocaml_version, version, distro, sub_distro) in some ways. E.g. (ara, v3.10.0, 1.0.22, hardy, backports) (ara, v3.10.2, 1.0.25, debian, testing) Any comment is welcomed. Sincerely yours, david Footnotes: [1] I had to change the way retrieve-data.sh names files, because Ubuntu has release names with '-' in them, like hardy-backports. -- GPG/PGP key: A3AD7A2A David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5996 CC46 4612 9CA4 3562 D7AC 6C67 9E96 A3AD 7A2A ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
