Re: gnome-utils missing from update_excuses
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:34:06PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > This does seem cute, but setting up auric's dinstall to trigger the update
> > scripts on klecker does seem like a much more straightforward way to fix
> > this particular problem.
>
> Perhaps, but that still A) doesn't fix the problem that packages.d.o
> only does i386 packages, B) involves creating an ad-hoc protocol, and C)
> doesn't give anyone else programmatic access to the information unless
> they parse HTML.
I concur with A, but I don't see how B is bad -- it's been working just fine
on other things so far. Also, C is not a problem -- packages.d.o only
contains information contained in the Packages, Sources and Contents files,
all of which are available on every Debian mirror.
> debian-project-corba lays the foundation for solving all of these
> problems (among a number of others); I'm just waiting on the OK of the
> DSAs to make a test deployment. I'm not saying there aren't problems
> with it that need to be solved, but I really do think it is the way to
> go for integrating all of Debian's services.
Well, by all means, do it, but until you're done we can still get the
mentioned problem fixed in the meantime.
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