On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:17 +0200, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:56:47PM -0600, Jonathan Lange wrote: ... > > For those who are interested, the numbers for Lucid are: > > - Packages in main: 16143 > > - Packages in main w/ upstream links: 16 > > Is an 'upstream link' a link from the package to the upstream project in > Launchpad? If so, this measurement doesn't make much sense, given how > packaging links currently work. It's designed so that if no link exist > for the current series, it will look for a link in previous series. > Therefore, the user doesn't have an incentive to create links for Lucid, > if the package already has a valid link for a previous series. Things > work just as well with a link for a previous series as it works with a > link for the current series. > > What should probably happen here is that we should automatically carry > over links to new series, either by explicitly copying the links, or > implicitly by having the Python API take care of things. The only reason > at the moment to create links for Lucid, is if the package doesn't have > any link for a previous series, or if you want the project page to say > that a package exists for the project in Lucid. The latter shouldn't be > necessary, we should do it for the user. In other words, we should use > this graph to drive people to register links for Lucid; it's > unproductive use of their and our time. It would be better use of our > time to actually fix how packaging works. I know some work was done > before, so I don't know how much is remaining.
The initialise-from-parent now copies the packaging links from the
parent to the child series. All historic series were updated in
production so that lucid's packaging link are set.
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+packaging
Martin and I discussed revising the +packaging page to bring some order
and priority to the information during the 3.0 UI design. We also agreed
that the distroseries page needs a portlet to the right of the info
portlet that show the packages that most need linking.
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