Hi all, I have a couple of intermediate tasks for the derivatives census code if anyone would like to help out some more. Axel Beckert requested a dd-list of packages patched by derivatives, for all derivatives and for individual ones. I think we would want the dd-list to be based on sid Sources but the server runs stable so the sid sources will need downloading. I'd suggest using the same mechanisms as are used for downloading derivatives apt info. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dex/census.git/commit/?id=a69fdb4a5c792582f9e22d3dcb9b98f25670eb01 https://lists.debian.org/20150614100824.GA9963@sym.noone.org Many derivatives are using reprepro and some of those expose their reprepro distributions config file to the world. It would be interesting to download these configuration files when appropriate, compare their contents with the sources.list file and report any discrepancies. Probably the place to add the checks would be the script check-sources-list. Probably the file should be downloaded for all distros, except those that have a 'Archive tool' field but don't have reprepro listed in that field. An example of a derivative that uses reprepro and exposes their config is SteamOS, but they don't declare that on their wiki page, maybe add warnings for this case. There will be lots of cases of distros where the config file isn't public so the scripts shouldn't make noise when it is missing or access is refused. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dex/census.git/tree/bin/check-sources-list http://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/conf/distributions -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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