Hi Paul, On Samstag, 13. September 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code > aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). > This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, > we have lots of places that need to be updated. Most of them can be > fixed (help needed), however Debian does not provide information about > which repositories are available where, which suites are provided by > them, nor any information about the relative order of those suites, nor > any information about which suites are archived. we have the python-distro-info package which at least holds some of that info. how/where would you see that in your "picture"? > The Ubuntu solution for this is a separate host containing meta-data > about which releases they have and info about which are supported: > > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release interesting. > Generated on a per-repository basis so that consumers get the data they > are interested in. Here I mean one for ftp.d.o/debian and one for each > of the archive.d.o/* repositories. cheers, Holger
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