Bug#647708: qa.debian.org: madison.php missing lenny suite

["Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debian.org>]

On Tue, January 10, 2012 14:12, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 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)

Thanks, it would be useful, but it doesn't work for me yet:

$ rmadison coreutils
 coreutils | 8.5-1     | squeeze | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64,
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 coreutils | 8.13-3    | wheezy  | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64,
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 coreutils | 8.13-3    | sid     | source, amd64, armel, hurd-i386, i386,
ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
 coreutils | 8.13-3+b1 | wheezy  | armhf, s390x
 coreutils | 8.13-3+b1 | sid     | armhf, s390x


Thijs