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Bug#551655: UDD: add pseudo-packages information



On 20/10/09 at 10:27 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:24, Olivier Berger
> <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote:
> > Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 21:18 +0200, Sandro Tosi a écrit :
> >
> >> <morph> lucas: hi! is there a place in UDD where pseudo-packages are stored? It doesn't seems so
> >> <lucas> no
> >> <morph> lucas: do you think a table for them only would be usefult?
> >> <lucas> what's your definition of pseudo-packages?
> >> <morph> lucas: objects like 'wnpp', 'wiki.d.o' and all the others defined in BTS not present as source/bin packgae
> >> <morph> lucas: http://bugs.debian.org/pseudopackages/pseudo-packages.description
> >> <morph> lucas: my need is that querying bugs, they come up, but there's no table describing them
> >> <lucas> ok
> >> <lucas> sounds like a good idea to add such a table
> >> <lucas> maybe directly in the bugs importer
> >> <morph> lucas: I'm going to report a bug report on this, just to don't forgive about that; I'll try to work on UDD a bit
> >>
> >
> > Shouldn't this be a property of the packages in their own table instead
> > of another table ?
> 
> pseudo-packages are just a name and a description; they are ~20
> instead of several 1000s of packages (either source or binary, you
> didn't specify). So they are quite different objects, and a different
> table seems in need instead of adding a column in other tables jsut to
> differentiate very few lines that will have none of the other
> attributes.

I agree. also, we can't add that to the packages table, since they are
not real packages.
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