Bug#647708: qa.debian.org: madison.php missing lenny suite
On 30/12/11 at 08:41 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > It seems that the madison.php [0] interface is currently lacking
> > > information about the lenny suite. However, it seems that
> > > lenny-security is still included.
>
> > AFAIK madison.php is symlinked or redirected to use UDD [1], and UDD\
> > has dropped the data about etch and lenny recently:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2011/10/msg00021.html
>
> This actually caused a problem: I released a DSA without an update for lenny,
> because from rmadison output I was lead to believe that this package wasn't
> included in lenny at all. rmadison gets rather useless if I can't trust it to
> list all supported suites a package is in.
>
> It seems a bit premature to me to drop the lenny data from UDD while the
> release still and only has one more month of its lifetime to go.
>
> How reversible is this?
> If not, perhaps rmadison should use `dak ls` as backend? I'm not convinced
> that this bug needs to be marked as wontfix at this stage, as rmadison now
> makes a promise (that it supplies the output of dak ls) that it can't keep.
I've re-added oldstable, and disabled Ubuntu imports instead (Ubuntu
Sources+Packages is only imported once a day via cron, instead of at
each mirror push -- samosa is not able to keep up with them anyway)
Hope this helps.
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