On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:24:55PM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > http://auric.debian.org/~robbe/tmp has 8800+ files and doesn't > include non-us, looks like. 1.7M of data in those files. > Individual files or one big file are ok with cable/adsl but > probably not much fun with dialup. Yeah, I just went there, and it is nice, but is it always up to date? It looks to me like it's updated only once a day. That's fine if it's synchronized with the install scripts, but it looks like it's not. Does it do contrib and non-free too or just main? BTW whatever solution we do here should imho be put on pandora as well so that people can look at madison for non-US packages too. > I doubt if there will be support for a cgi script. There might > already have been definitive word on all this. The mailing lists > have dried up here for the last few hours. I don't remember hearing any definitive word. I still think it would be useful. For example, what if someone who is not a maintainer wants to create a specialized, private, or value-added distribution of Debian and wanted to know how different the various architectures were with regard to the packages that are relevant to this particular project? Or what if upstream is curious about which architectures their program has been compiled for? Madison is not useful only for maintainers. And even if it was, the point made elsewhere in this thread about privacy issues connecting to auric is a good one. Lastly, sponsored maintainers (whom I believe to be full-fledged maintainers, as per my response to aj) should have a convenient way to learn for themselves the status of their packages. Web interfaces are more convenient IMHO than connecting to auric and pandora and checking the appropriate pool directory, especially if one is interested in more than one package. Are there any disadvantages to a web interface to madison? - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org
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