On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:03:56 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > Am Montag, den 18.08.2014, 15:18 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > > > it would be great if it would throw away "out of date" problems (or at > > > least annotate them) if the package is in state "BD-Uninstallable", as > > > it usually means that some dependency did not build. > > > > That's right. Do you know if it's possible to query the status of a > > package in plaintext from the buildds? > > The only idea how to get the status of the package is to parse the > > HTML, which is a lot harder than parsing plaintext. > > not sure how official that is, but there exists > https://buildd.debian.org/stats/amd64-dump.txt.gz > (and similar for the other arches). Can you unpack them? When I try to unpack them they still look pretty much binary. However, when using ark to see their preview, they look fine. > > It seems it is also exported to the UDD (see e.g. > http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/buildd.cgi), but I’m not sure if it is > possibly to query the UDD easily. According to > https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase you’d first have to SSH > into alioth.debian.org. That's pity. The easiest would be to query the state directly from the database. And downloading the whole dump just for a few buildd statuses is a bit much. Regards Sven
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