Re: Description-less packages file
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Hi Andreas,
> 1. Provide the missing information in the Packages.gz files
> anyway. Joerg, I have no idea how compley to implement
> this might be or what chances to break something might
> exist.
> 2. We move English translations from Translation-en.bz2
> to the packages table making sure that all existing UDD
> applications will work immediately again.
> 3. We drop long_description field from packages table now
> and *calculate* the md5 sums from long_escription for those
> releases where it is missing and keep all long_descriptions
> inside the ddtp table.
My feeling is that our long term aim should be to have the long description
only in the ddtp table. This is a slightly-more-normalised form for the
database which will help reduce the size of the tables and, since the long
description is unused in most queries to UDD, that will help with
performance. It's also a data structure that, in the long term, more closely
reflects the data sources being included which has been a general UDD
principle over the years.
So, if that's where we want to end up in the long run, I reckon that we
should just do it now. We only need a small amount of code to get it to work
for squeeze (and lenny, for however long that will remain in UDD) and in ~2
years' time we can drop that too.
I'm happy to look at the packages gatherer and have it (optionally) feed in
the long description and the appropriate md5 into ddtp.
Things that use the description from UDD will need to learn to get them from
ddtp rather than packages -- I'm happy to help with that but I don't know
what uses the description at all anyway.
cheers
Stuart
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Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net
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