Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: = Flat Repository Format = A flat repository does not use the {{{dists}}} hierarchy of directories, and instead places meta index and indices directly into the archive root (or some part below it) In sources.list

Bug#663174: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: How about integrating it with the Policy's chapter 5 (thus enlarging its scope) instead of having it as a separate document ? That would help to underline when a field is used in the same way or differently as in the package control data files. The

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org writes: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: FWIW posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat Thanks Michal I have now documented the Contents indices and the diffs as well, mostly (sans the exact format

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 07:38:59AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: What's the opinion about the flat repository format, where you just have one directory with Release, Packages, Sources, and friends and no sub-directories? Should

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from David Kalnischkies's message of Thu May 17 18:21:59 +0200 2012: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: Michal Suchanek writes (Re: Bug#671503: general: APT

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz writes: Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: Michal Suchanek writes (Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented): Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012:

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Jackson
CC'ing the apt list de...@lists.debian.org. Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented): Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz writes: [ discussions regarding documenting the apt repository format ] I would suggest you

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:02:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: CC'ing the apt list de...@lists.debian.org. Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented): Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz writes: [ discussions

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:02:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: CC'ing the apt list de...@lists.debian.org. Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I do not think that APT is responsible for the repository format. The repository format is defined by ftpmaster, not by APT. APT has to my knowledge not defined anything new, but only implemented changes to the repository

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
FWIW posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org [120518 14:43]: A working draft could be something like the following. It mostly describes the current format for Release, Packages, and Sources files. It's thus missing Contents and Translations, pdiffs, and stuff, but it's a beginning. It specifies

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:34:29PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org [120518 14:43]: A working draft could be something like the following. It mostly describes the current format for Release, Packages, and Sources files. It's thus missing Contents and

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: FWIW posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat Thanks Michal I have now documented the Contents indices and the diffs as well, mostly (sans the exact format we use for the patches), and Translation

Bug#663174: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: FWIW posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat What's the opinion about the flat repository format, where you just have one directory with Release, Packages, Sources, and friends and no sub-directories? Should

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Wookey
+++ Julian Andres Klode [2012-05-18 13:38 +0200]: We currently have three independent implementations of the repository format in the archive: APT, cupt, smartpm. I think reprepro is another? /usr/share/doc/reprepro/manual.html contains a 'repository basics' section which includes useful

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Julian Andres Klode [2012-05-18 13:38 +0200]: We currently have three independent implementations of the repository format in the archive: APT, cupt, smartpm. I think reprepro is another? Of course, I was just only talking

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Julian Andres Klode's message of Fri May 18 18:49:10 +0200 2012: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: FWIW posted on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat Thanks Michal I have now documented the Contents indices and the

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:12:16PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: The formatting is not consistent but that will have to be changed for docbook anyway. Yes, and it will also be more readable then, than the current wiki version. Also would need some proof-reading. If nothing else somebody

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: What's the opinion about the flat repository format, where you just have one directory with Release, Packages, Sources, and friends and no sub-directories? Should they be documented as well then? We would then have two kind of

Bug#663174: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:49:10PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode a écrit : In a few months, I'd like to rework this in DocBook form, and submit it to debian-policy for inclusion into official Policy, as a sub-policy like copyright-format. Dear Julian and everybody, thank you for this

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012: Could you clarify how this differs from #481129? It's 4 years later. Sorry, forgot that I filed the bug already. It's quite some time. Given there is no feedback in 4 years I guess it is futile reporting this.

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Michal Suchanek writes (Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented): Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012: Could you clarify how this differs from #481129? It's 4 years later. Sorry, forgot that I filed the bug already. It's

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: Michal Suchanek writes (Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented): Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of Wed May 16 18:44:21 +0200 2012: Could you clarify how this differs from #481129?

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, On 2012-05-17 13:48, Michal Suchanek wrote: Admittedly there is no text in social contract about using Debian-proprietary formats. And a format only defined by apt can read that is definitely Debian-proprietary there is no better term for that. I'd say it's slightly discriminatory

Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: Excerpts from Ian Jackson's message of Thu May 17 14:53:30 +0200 2012: Michal Suchanek writes (Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented): Excerpts from Filipus Klutiero's message of