On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 23:36 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > If I understand correctly, release-monitoring already offers such a > mapping [1]. It seems like the Ayanita distro mapping needs to be done manually once per package, while using the Repology data would automatically get us the mapping for each existing package and all future packages. > Hm, I can't really think of an example where such a thing couldn't > also be implemented in release-monitoring.org. None of the three use-cases I listed can be done by it AFAICT. It can't check things that it doesn't have a check for, while individual package maintainers in various distros will update their packages and Repology will notice the new versions. It presumably doesn't look at the versions for all distros, so it can't do the cross-distro VCS snapshot choice check, while individual package maintainers in various distros know their packages well and might upgrade to a VCS snapshot in their distro, which Repology notices. It also isn't going to check locations it doesn't check yet, while individual package maintainers in other distros might do that after noticing their package hasn't been updated recently and then going searching for a new upstream and updating, which Repology notices. > Just one quick idea I had: what about a "fake" uscan backend? I.e. > something like `Version: release-monitoring.org` in d/watch. In that > case uscan will launch an external program that fetches the data from > there and gives it back to uscan, so that other tools stay unaffected > until a full transition is done. Excellent idea, that would be great to have. The one issue I can think of with using release-monitoring.org is that Debian becomes more reliant on an external service, while currently we are completely independent of other distros for version checking. Converting the release-monitoring.org check to a watch file might be an alternative to using it directly that maintains our independence. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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