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Bug#581752: marked as done (qa.debian.org: watch file redirect service)

Your message dated Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:17:05 +0000
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and subject line qa.debian.org bug fixed in revision 2571
has caused the Debian Bug report #581752,
regarding qa.debian.org: watch file redirect service
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Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

We know when the watch file has an URL matching with the Perl regexp
"^http://sf\.net/";, the uscan program substitutes it with
"http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/"; and then applies this rule. The URL
redirector service at this http://qa.debian.org/ is designed to offer a
stable redirect service to the desired file for the watch file having
"http://sf.net/project/tar-name-(.+)\.tar\.gz". This solves issues
related to the periodically changing URL there.

But this service is somewhat obscure and its source location and
patch submission is hidden well into maze of Debian infrastructure.

So my wishlists are:

1. http://qa.debian.org/watch/README needs to provide required pointer
   to ket information site such as http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch

2. Publish redirector code, so people can create similars for
   http://code.google.com/ and other site.
   (Once these becomes standard practice, we can have version=4 watch
    file where we explicitly specify redirector parameters.  This should
    remove ugly regex in uscan.) (oops, it seems to be available as
    http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/qa/trunk/wml/watch/ )
   But it is still quite unclear how http://ftp.heanet.ie/ (actual site
   which seems to be doing this) generates these data.

The idea of redirector is great since novice developer can get benefit
to get latest source using old watch file under stable system for
backport. Publishing code helps to populate
http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ directory with many php redirecor
code. 

Osamu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2571

This bug was closed by Giovanni Mascellani (gio) in SVN revision 2571.
Note that it might take some time until the qa.debian.org code has
been updated and cronjobs have picked up changed data.

Commit message:

Adding links to sf.php source code. Closes: #581752.

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