Re: Bug#560352: PTS page scew-up? (pcsc-omnikey)

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 12/12/09 at 07:53 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> retitle 560352 PTS and DDPO scew-ups
> thanks
> 
> it's not just pcsc-omnikey, it's also others (imagination,
> libgnupdf, pth, qpxtool, xenwatch, ...).

More generally, it seems that we have a big problem.

Many tools relied on the fact that the Sources file only contained one
entry per package. This was changed recently, without any impact study,
and instantly broke many tools and scripts.

I've created a view in UDD that provides the old information (ie, only
the most recent source for each source package), and another one that
provides only the superseded source packages that are still in the
sources file.

select count(*) from sources_uniq where release='sid' and
component='main';
count 
-------
14355
(1 row)

select count(*) from sources where release='sid' and component='main';
count 
-------
15289
(1 row)

select count(*) from sources_redundant where release='sid' and component='main';
 count 
-------
   934
(1 row)

I'm exporting the (source, version) from sources_uniq for unstable at
http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/sources_sid_filtered.cgi

I'm not sure where we should got from here: should we ask ftpmasters to
consider reverting that change in some way? Or instead, try to find all the
tools that relied on the old format?

- Lucas