On 14/02/09 at 08:55 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >>> -- Sources >>> CREATE TABLE new_sources ( >>> source text, >>> version text, >>> maintainer text, >>> maintainer_name text, >>> maintainer_email text, >>> bin text, -- by parsing >>> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/<src>_<version>.html#dsc field "Binary:" >> >> call it binaries? ask ftpmasters to export it to deb822? > > It's fine for me to use binaries instead of bin. > I asked Gannef yesterday in IRC and he would accept a patch to DAK > (https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/dak.git/). I had a look into > people.debian.org:/org/upload.debian.org/dak/dak/show_new.py > which creates the html pages of the new quere and I learned that > it will be much less effort for me to parse the html result than > to dive into DAK internals. So if you are able to convince > ftpmaster to export to deb822 this would be definitely a better > solution but I can not spend the time I would need for the "right" > solution. > >>> closes int, -- WNPP bug # >> >> I think that a given NEW upload can close several bugs. (Think of >> packages in NEW because of new binary packages, not just new source >> packages). > > Sure. But I would check UDD for the bug number whether it is > a bug of wnpp and contains the magic strings ITP and the > name of the package. Would you consider this sufficient? > >>> If there is any better method to obtain the fields above than >>> parsing HTML pages I would be really happy if you could enlighten >>> me. >> >> ask ftpmasters to export the data you want, if it's already available >> somewhere? > > My initial mail, your mail and this mail are CC ftpmaster. The > fact that Gannef told me he would accept a patch lets me assume that > while they are in principle open to include the code but that it does > not yet exist (because Gannef would probably have told me). So would > you think that a gatherer which parses the HTML pages would do the > job for the moment and can be enhanced later? > > Or should we rather start to just move the information of > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822 > into UDD for the moment and "wait".
Yeah, it would make sense to: - add all the info from new.822 to UDD - file a bug about exporting the other missing info through new.822 - have your script warn you when new fields are available in new.822. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
