On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:53:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org> wrote: > > Le mardi 13 juillet 2010 15:48:52, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > >> >> http://googlecode.debian.net/p/freemedform/ > >> > >> Please do not continue spreading the use of that redirector. Just because > >> there's one for sourceforge it doesn't mean it is okay to have one for > >> other hosting services. We ideally want *none*. > > > > (...) > > > >> > I would've had tons of emails from angry users asking why it didn't work, > >> > if the redirector was actually broken :) > >> > >> 16 packages use it, there should be none. > > > > May I ask why ? > > It should be pretty obvious: less work for Debian and others: > > less work for Debian nameservers Than explain me why we have wesnoth.*, tinc.*, meetbot.*, joy.* and others. I don't care for them, but since you believe nameservers are having a hard time keeping up...</ironic> ;) > [..] > It does mean more work for Google since they have to inform every > engineer working on the download stuff of the need to keep URL schemes > useful for autodownloaders. Not true, a redirector is meant to change and adhere to the "upstream" website. This is, if Google changes again, I'll change the redirector (instead of maintainers changing debian/watch files). > There 3 redirectors curently (sf, github, and google code) and all of > them have been around for a while, googlecode.debian.net has been around for a bit more than one month, I wouldn't say that's anything comparable to the time sf and github ones have been up. > I'm skeptical that any of these systems are going to change for us any time > soon. Probably the best way to deal with that is to add code to uscan to do > add the right opts rather than creating redirect sites. It looks like even > sf.net could now be automatically scanned with the right downloadurlmangle and > filenamemangle options. Are you volunteering to make a patch for uscan? ;) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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