Bug#698161: [PTS] RDF descriptions point to broken archive links in some cases
Hi.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:47:46AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Some RDF descriptions contain broken downloadUrl links. E.g.
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/s-http-server.rdf
>
> Links to:
> <schema:downloadUrl>http://http.debian.net/debian//s-http-
> server_20080228.orig.tar.gz</schema:downloadUrl>
>
> Which doesn't exist.
>
In this respect, it's no better than the HTML page at http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/s-http-server.html which points to the .dsc file at http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/s-http-server/s-http-server_20080228-1.dsc
> From a quick look at a couple of such issues it seems that it is limited to
> packages which only "exist" in oldstable.
>
> P.S. needless to say, even if the pool directory was right, the files are no
> longer there in the mirrors. Perhaps the code should be aware of archived
> releases and use http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian/ as the base
> URL.
>
I think it's not so much a big deal, but needs a fix. There are probably higher priorities on my TODO, though. So, any patch is much welcome.
Thanks for reporting.
Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
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