[Popcon-developers] Re: question about "not in sid"-maintainer

[allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr (Bill Allombert)]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:17:41PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:17:09AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > > I am currently not yet a DD but I already maintain a view packages which
> > > are officially in sid. When I -- courious as I am -- take my daily look at
> > > popcon.debian.org, i can see something like
> > >
> > > ...
> > > 15715 crystalcursors           15     0     0     0    15 (Not in sid)
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Crystalcursors is one of my packages and it *is* in sid, with me as
> > > maintainer. So I wonder, why my name does not appear? Is it, because I am
> > > not a real DD or it is a bug?
> > 
> > Could it be, that the machine on wich popcon.debian.org runs (alioth?) has not 
> > executed "apt-get update" lately? If so, does someone know, in which period 
> > this usally happens?
> 
> popcon.debian.org run on gluck.debian.org which carry a full Debian
> mirror which should be updated at each mirror pulse (i.e. daily). The
> packages files used are thoses of the mirror.

Well:

gluck% ls -l /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages
-rw-r--r--    1 archvsyn archvsyn 14783073 Aug 18 13:13 /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages

So apparently gluck was not updated since Aug 18. I don't know why.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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