Re: Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Paul Wise wrote:
> ftp-masters seem to be open to the idea but want a spec for what data
> needs to be exported where.
>
> I would like to invite service maintainers and maintainers of derivative
> distros to document what info they hard-code from the Debian archive and
> their requirements for any replacement for that hard-coding.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/SuitesAndReposExtension
Some information that is useful is to know what suites are "partial" (i.e.
don't have a full set of packages) and what parent suite they are
associated too (to get the remaining packages).
It's important for example to be able to do proper dependency analysis
on a partial suite by trying to look up missing packages in the parent
suite.
Cheers,
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