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Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks



Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:42:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I do, although I'd like to reorganize more than that too.  For example,
>> right now everything is written to one giant directory, which isn't a
>> good idea.  It would also be nice to have pages by package as well as
>> by maintainer, and it would be good to include packages for which one
>> is an uploader in one's personal report.

> Ok, what do you suggest then? Should I wait for the code reorganization
> (assuming it was planned for anytime soon), or go ahead and try patching
> something for the meantime?

Let's do this.  Let's standardize on:

    http://lintian.debian.org/reports/maintainer/<email>.html

where <email> is formed by taking the e-mail address of the maintainer and
then replacing any character other than:

    a-z A-Z 0-9 - _ . @ = +

with _.  That's nicely conservative and consists of all of the unreserved
URI characters minus ~*'()! (sometimes shell metacharacters basically
never found in e-mail addresses) and with @=+ added from the reserved
characters since they're found in some addresses and will do no harm.

Then, we'll have a nicer structure to the URL without you having to wait
for a general reorganization or additional views, and I can add that stuff
later.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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