Re: ITM: Please review lab-refactor branch

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2011-10-27 21:52, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The major part of the development in the lab-refactor branch should be
> done now, so I intend to merge it into master.  The branch has touched
> major parts of Lintian and breaks a lot of stuff.  Obviously, I would
> like a thorough review of it before I hit merge - particuarly of
> reporting/* as we have no test-suite coverage here.
> 
> I would like to see the merge done some time next week followed by an
> upload.  However if you would like more time to review the branch,
> please let me know how long you need.
> 
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> 

Re-visiting the pool format in the branch, I have been considering if it
would be better to use the source package name (like it is done on the
mirror) for the two first directories.  Currently we use the binary name
all the way through.

That is, currently we would store libtomcat6-java (src: tomcat6) in:

 pool/libt/libtomcat6-java/libtomcat6-java_$ver_$arch_$type/

whereas if we used the source package:

 pool/t/tomcat6/libtomcat-6-java_$ver_$arch_$type/


I see to advantages in this, first the format is closer to that of the
mirror.  Secondly we reduce the "stress" on the "letter directories"
(lib[a-z] and [a-z] dirs in pool/).

If there are no comments on this, I will probably implement this in
about 5 days, when I merge the lab-refactor branch into master.

~Niels