Request for comment: status of Ubuntu's packages
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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:18:56 +0200
From: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
To: debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: Request for comment: status of Ubuntu's packages
Hello,
I've tried to adapt the web page showing status of OCaml packages on
Debian to Ubuntu. I've tried two approaches:
1. A page with only Ubuntu packages. This is patch
ocaml-debian-status-ubuntu-only.patch attached.
Sample:
http://bentobako.org/tmp/ubuntu-only/debian-ocaml-status.html
2. A page with mixed Debian and Ubuntu packages. This is patch
ocaml-debian-status-mixed.patch attached[1].
Sample:
http://bentobako.org/tmp/mixed/debian-ocaml-status.html
In fact, I'm not satisfied with both approaches.
The first one is cleaner: I've taken care of putting the right Launchpad
link for the source package and the Intrepid packages are not masked by
testing ones. But is lacks comparison with Debian packages.
The mixed approach offers comparison between Debian and Ubuntu packages,
but the policy "only the "best" version, i.e. the one nearest to a
release, is reported" makes most of Intrepid packages masked by testing.
Moreover, there is probably the equivalent of
testing/unstable/experimental for hardy, intrepid, ... This is not
integrated yet.
I'm wondering if it would not be better to represent quintuplets
(source, ocaml_version, version, distro, sub_distro) in some ways. E.g.
(ara, v3.10.0, 1.0.22, hardy, backports)
(ara, v3.10.2, 1.0.25, debian, testing)
Any comment is welcomed.
Sincerely yours,
david
Footnotes:
[1] I had to change the way retrieve-data.sh names files, because
Ubuntu has release names with '-' in them, like hardy-backports.
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