Re: apt repository checker?
>>>>> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> Within the context of the derivatives census I have been looking at
> the apt repositories of our derivatives. I noted that some of them
> are affected by #637563 due to directly importing Debian repository
> data. I also found some repositories that are not GPG signed. So I
> was wondering if we have a tool for checking apt repositories and
> looking for common mistakes.
Well, checking Sources (and Packages) for Bug#637563 could, as
it seems, be implemented (in, say, Awk or Perl) quite easily.
Signature checking, as well as the Release parsing & dist/ files
download is a bit more tricky. Something like one or two rainy
days of coding effort, I guess.
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