Re: bugs and patches in Debian
Hi Gabor,
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> wrote:
> a month or two ago in Oslo we discussed with Jeremiah and others
> that I would like to make it easy for everyone, including the CPAN module
> authors to see which of the CPAN modules are distributed by Debian.
Jeremiah told us a little about this, and I'm very happy to see this initiative!
> I hope that having such metric on CPANTS will encourage CPAN developers
> to make sure they pick up the patches from Debian and fix the bugs reported
> in Debian.
Excellent!
> So we figured out the best would be if there was a cron job on some
> debian server
> generating a csv file with fileds like
> Perl-Package-Name,CPAN Version,Number of patches,Number of bugs,Link
> to its home page in Debian
Nowadays we don't have all that information, but let's examine it:
- Perl-Package-name: we currently have a pointer to the homepage and
the watchfile which strongly suggest this (we almost always use
seach.cpan.org/dist/foo URLs). I played with the idea of having a more
specific metadata available.
- CPAN version: got that from watchfiles.
- Number of patches: the problem here is the many ways of doing this
in debian; but in the Perl Group we have more or less standarised on
using quilt, and the few remaining use dpatch/simple-patchsys which
are quite similar. I guess this can be added pretty easily for us, not
for Debian in general (there are many Perl packages maintained outside
the group).
- Number of bugs: we have it
- Home page in Debian: there's not exactly a home page, but we can
automatically generate links to the various QA pages easily
In general, our qa-report scripts can be extended to grab this data
for the perl group, but as I said before, it'd be a little difficult
to extend them beyond that. Ad-hoc reporting could be done for the
rest, but I don't think it'd be an easy task.
> I guess I am talking about Debian Unstable here but we can discuss this.
I don't think it has much sense to track stable.
> As Jeremiah probably has other things to do now and I'd like to make this move
> forward I would like to ask if anyone on the list could create such a csv file.
I'm all for this to happen, so count me on working on this. As soon as
I have some free time :)
The CSV generating part is trivial, the main work is on capturing the
now missing data.
--
Martín Ferrari
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