Package: devscripts
Version: 2.22.1~bpo11+1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/rmadison
Please extend the rmadison parser so it can add &f=json to the URL it fetches.
This avoids people post-processing text to get json out.
01:08 <REDACTED1> TIL (from twb's comment earlier) "rmadison -u ubuntu" to
find out package versions from ubuntu
01:09 <REDACTED2> It's super slow. :-/
01:11 <REDACTED3> And the output format differs
01:11 <REDACTED1> REDACTED2: indeed
01:12 <REDACTED3> so better not shell-parse that
01:13 <REDACTED1> the output here only seems to differ by a leading space
in front of the package name
01:14 <REDACTED3> yes
01:19 <REDACTED1> rmadison $pkg | sed 's/ \+/ /g' | jc --csv goes a long
way to parsing the output though :)
01:19 <REDACTED3> TIL: jc
01:20 <REDACTED2> TIL there's no python-is-python2 in Ubuntu 22.04.
01:27 <REDACTED2> For me, "jc --csv" produces garbage on rmadison output.
01:30 <REDACTED2> Like... it assumes that the first line is a header, and
uses "6" (?!) as the column separator.
01:30 <REDACTED1> oh hmm here (sid) it recognized the | as the separating
character. but I saw after posting that command that one would need to add a
columns title line with echo for the json objects to make sense
01:31 <REDACTED1> anyway .. like you were saying, it's not super trivial to
parse.
02:18 <twb> REDACTED1: I think this is probably easier:
https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?package=mg&f=json
02:19 <twb> The args rmadison passes are all single-letter codes,
file:///usr/bin/rmadison#lines=197-209
Example output:
$ curl -s
'https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?package=mg&f=json&a=source&s=testing'
| jq .
[
{
"mg": {
"testing": {
"20210609-1": {
"component": "main",
"architectures": [
"source"
],
"source": "mg",
"source_version": "20210609-1"
}
}
}
}
]
Note that this does NOT work for Ubuntu.
$ curl
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi?package=mg\&f=json
<title>dak ls aka madison</title>
⋮
<h2>dak ls mg</h2>
mg | 20110905-1.1 | trusty/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386,
powerpc, ppc64el
mg | 20160118-2 | xenial/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386,
powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
mg | 20171014-1 | bionic/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386,
ppc64el, s390x
mg | 20180927-1 | focal/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
mg | 20200723-1 | impish/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
mg | 20200723-1 | jammy/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
mg | 20210609-1 | kinetic/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
⋮
Usage: dak ls [OPTION] PACKAGE[...]
Display information about PACKAGE(s).
-a, --architecture=ARCH only show info for ARCH(s)
-c, --component=COMPONENT only show info for COMPONENT(s)
-h, --help show this help and exit
-r, --regex treat PACKAGE as a regex <i>[not supported in
madison.cgi]</i>
-s, --suite=SUITE only show info for this suite
-S, --source-and-binary show info for the binary children of source
pkgs
ARCH, COMPONENT and SUITE can be comma (or space) separated lists, e.g.
--architecture=m68k,i386
⋮
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
Empty.
--- ~/.devscripts ---
BTS_CACHE=no
DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog
DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN || echo 1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.10
ii fakeroot 1.25.3-1.1
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii gnupg 2.2.27-2+deb11u1
ii gpgv 2.2.27-2+deb11u1
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libfile-dirlist-perl 0.05-2
ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.006-1
ii libfile-touch-perl 0.11-1
ii libfile-which-perl 1.23-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20200505.0-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1
ii libwww-perl 6.52-1
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii sensible-utils 0.0.14
ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii apt 2.2.4
ii curl 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u1
ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3+b1
ii debian-keyring 2021.07.26
ii dput 1.1.0
ii equivs 2.3.1
ii libdistro-info-perl 1.0
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.10
ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1.1
ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.048-1
ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.26-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.10-1
ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1
ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii liburi-perl 5.08-1
ii licensecheck 3.1.1-2
ii lintian 2.111.0~bpo11+1
ii man-db 2.9.4-2
ii patch 2.7.6-7
ii pristine-tar 1.49
ii python3-apt 2.2.1
ii python3-debian 0.1.39
ii python3-magic 2:0.4.20-3
ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii python3-unidiff 0.5.5-2
ii python3-xdg 0.27-2
ii strace 5.10-1
ii unzip 6.0-26
ii wget 1.21-1+deb11u1
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
pn adequate <none>
pn at <none>
pn autopkgtest <none>
pn bls-standalone <none>
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-2
ii build-essential 12.9
pn check-all-the-things <none>
pn cvs-buildpackage <none>
ii debhelper 13.3.4
pn diffoscope <none>
pn disorderfs <none>
pn dose-extra <none>
pn duck <none>
pn elpa-devscripts <none>
pn faketime <none>
ii gnuplot-nox [gnuplot] 5.4.1+dfsg1-1+deb11u1
ii how-can-i-help 17
ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1.1
pn libdbd-pg-perl <none>
ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-2
pn libnet-smtps-perl <none>
pn libterm-size-perl <none>
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
pn libyaml-syck-perl <none>
ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.10-3+b1
ii mmdebstrap 0.7.5-2.2
pn mozilla-devscripts <none>
ii mutt 2.0.5-4.1twb1
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:8.4p1-5
pn piuparts <none>
pn postgresql-client <none>
pn pristine-lfs <none>
ii quilt 0.66-2.1
pn ratt <none>
pn reprotest <none>
pn svn-buildpackage <none>
ii w3m 0.5.3+git20210102-6
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