Re: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:43:33PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:09:47AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > >>science-physics on http://qa.debian.org/developer.php should do this,
> > >>but it returns the page
> > >>http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?task=science-physics which says "No
> > >>information available for Task: science-physics".
> > >
> > >I wonder why you think this should work, since there is in fact no
> > >science-physics task.
> >
> > What about
> >
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-science.html ?
> >
> > I guess the source of the missunderstanding that the term "task" is
> > used in different meanings. In the first place technically science-physics
> > is a metapackage.
OK.
>
> Yeah, "task" here really means "task as understood by tasksel/defined by
> Packages file", not "something similar to a task implemented as metapackage".
Hmm, I wonder whether they should be tasks as understood by tasksel?
What I want is a way of keeping an eye on packages in one of these
metapackages to see that they are at least vaguely up to date and not
full of RC bugs. I was then going to add it to
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience in the hope that scientists will
help squash bugs in the science packages - and spot that maintainers
have gone MIA.
To achieve this, it would be possible to construct a URL by hand - but
if I do this, it will rapidly become out of sync with the
metapackage. It ought to be possible to generate this list from the
package - but that wouldn't be possible in the wiki (I don't
think). Is there another easy way that I've missed.
Chris
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