Re: by-author vs. by-module URLs in debian/watch
>>>>> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:13:14 +0300, Damyan Ivanov <dam@modsoftsys.com> said:
di> -=| Bart Martens, 5.08.2007 14:48 |=-
>> Another reason for why not: The directories "by-module" seem to lag
>> behind. For example:
>>
>> These have version 0.9:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libc/libclass-dbi-pg-perl.html
>> http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Class-DBI-Pg/
>>
>> But here the newest version is 0.8:
>> http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Class/
>>
>> I have not yet scanned all Perl modules in Debian to see how big this
>> problem at CPAN is.
di> Ouch! Existence of such exceptions makes the whole idea of using only
di> by-module URLs inappropriate.
di> I guess the most authoritative source of module version information
di> would be http://search.cpan.org/searcg?query=$module&mode=module but
di> using this for all 360 DPG packages would be dead slow.
Authoritative are the index files modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
and neighbors. Let me know if you need more information thatn you can
find there.
--
andreas
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