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Re: status update about packages.debian.org



On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:06:13PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> - I've tried to make an alioth project for this but it was rejected,
>   and for good reasons. I had to learn that I would not have shell
>   access to a.d.o as a non-DD even when I am in a project. Since this
>   was one of my main reasons to request an alioth project, I'm not
>   too unhappy that it was rejected.

:/

> - The script needs much memory (200 to 300 MB for the
>   unstable distribution) and is slow (but my computer has only 256 MB
>   RAM, I can not really speak for swapless execution)
>   Should I try to optimize it mainly for speed or for memory?

How long does it take to run?

> - At the example pages you can see my solution for displaying the
>   dependencies for all the architectures. Please comment.

Perhaps if you removed all those visible table borders...

> - The translated descriptions are stored in utf-8. Are there reasons
>   to convert them for the webpages? Or could handle the browers utf-8
>   well enough?

Try going with UTF-8 for now.

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