Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system without root privileges. The secure-testing archive

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system without root privileges. The secure-testing archive contains a

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Use http://qa.debian.org/data/ddpo/ddpo_packages, the 2nd and 3rd field in the [foo,bar,baz,.] bit are testing and unstable respectively. That's fully 404 compliant. Greetings Marc --

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:14 AM, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Use http://qa.debian.org/data/ddpo/ddpo_packages, the 2nd and 3rd field in the [foo,bar,baz,.] bit are testing and unstable respectively.

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a host that doesn't have a local archive. With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in terms of network bandwidth) to

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a host that doesn't have a local archive. With the arrivale of Packages

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either. Having never really

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/02/06 at 09:43 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a host that doesn't have a

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I'm all for a CSS based layout. For automated use of the data, however, wouldn't it make sense to provide some kind of interface that is suitable for automated use? XML-RPC, or whatever, I'm not familiar with the technologies in question. An

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Florian Weimer [Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:47:59 +0100]: * Marc Haber: With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space consumption

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adeodato Simó: The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why). Ooh, with pdiff support? Yes, of course. It only mirrors individual files and it's not terribly efficient -- a better implementation

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: the output of the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Why do you want to parse it in the first place? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: the output of the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Why do you want to parse it in the first place? I want to check whether a

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2006-01-31 kello 22:32 +0100, Marc Haber kirjoitti: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: the output of the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Why do you

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-31 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:32:57PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: the output of the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Why do you

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-01-19 Thread Marc Haber
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, the output of the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse. Please consider converting to CSS. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT