Hi Lucas, > > is there any good reason to "drop view all_sources"[1]. I'm using this > > for team-metrics and while I could probably re-implement it somehow I > > would like to learn about the motivation first. > > This also came up on IRC a few days ago. > > I removed that view because there was no use for it internally (in > UDD-hosted tools) and it was a bit painful to update when the sources > schema changed. > > It was defined as the equivalent of: > SELECT * FROM sources -- that's Debian's source packages > UNION SELECT * FROM ubuntu_sources -- that's Ubuntu's > UNION SELECT * FROM derivatives_sources;
Yes. > What is your use case for it? The use case was that I was seeking for different spellings of names of maintainers and this might happen over all those sources. > Usually, you don't want to scan through all those sources > (Debian+Ubuntu+...) at the same time without differenciating based on > the distribution. Its actually helpful to look beyond Debian for this specific purpose. However, I can add that view locally to the UDD clone I'm using for this. > I suspected that you want to use 'sources' instead (or 'sources_uniq' if > you prefer to hide some superseded packages that are still in Debian's > Sources files). Using all_sources was intentional (not sure whether we even invented it for this purpose at the time when I was starting this). If you think pristine UDD is better served without this view I could deal with this. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
