Bug#970744: ben: please provide machine-parseable version of transition status

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 23/09/2020 à 20:52, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit :
>>> thanks for maintaining ben. In additiona to the HTML output, it would be
>>> great to have the same information as machine-parseable file. With such
>>> a file one could feed other tools to further process the info produced
>>> by ben, e.g., to produce a list of binNMUs.
>>
>> Did you know that there were a text output? Probably not what you mean
>> by "machine-parseable", but maybe easier to parse than the HTML output.
> 
> No, I didn't. I work with the HTML output on release.debian.org most of
> the time.

I just realized there is already a JSON output, made by Mehdi in 2015...
maybe it could suit your needs?


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane