Bug#792564: qa.d.o/dose: please export distcheck and buildcheck results in a machine readable format

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> it would be useful to show information about unsatisfiability of binary
> and source packages in DMD and the tracker. For that, qa.d.o/dose should
> export machine readable data of the latest runs of distcheck and
> buildcheck. I guess that the dose yaml format would be sufficient for
> this.
>
> It would also be interesting if DMD and the tracker could link back to
> the right page on qa.d.o/dose. For that purpose it would be useful to
> have stable urls for a given source package which would then redirect to
> the page of that source package with the latest timestamp. So then
> instead of linking to:

Stable URLs wouldn't be nessecary for tracker.d.o as the data can
contain the nessecary URLs.

Side note: I think the Perl implementation of unsatisfiability checks
on qa.d.o has more human-readable results pages (but is more buggy).
At minimum, the short explanations on the architecture pages need to
be present on the package pages too.

https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/src_unstable_main/1437022805/packages/adonthell-data.html
https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/src_unstable_main/1437022805/armhf.html
https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sid&package=adonthell-data

-- 
bye,
pabs

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