Bug#815202: packages: machines and sponsors information is outdated

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Stéphane Blondon wrote:

> There are no commit since two years, so I'm not sure it's still alive.

Nevertheless, it is the way forward.

> I tried to extract the useful code from the script. It depends on the
> libnet-ldapapi-perl package and the configuration of the machine which
> is running the LDAP.

The Debian LDAP can be accessed from any machine, anonymous access
will only return the public data (including hostname stuff). So you
shouldn't need to run on db.d.o nor read the config file at all.

> - Perhaps providing the full data in JSON format by db.d.o would provide
> an easy access for several Debian services/tools.

Direct LDAP access should be machine-readable enough for almost all
services and others can easily add a proxy script.

> - Or providing a python script which could be reused by the django site
> in the future?

I agree that any future machines list in ud (one doesn't exist yet)
should have some filtering options.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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