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



Hi,

Quoting Paul Wise (2015-07-17 09:42:19)
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > Correct. My motivation to add this was something I forgot to mention in my
> > initial report, but this is just an implementation detail: dose3 outputs
> > its results in yaml format. Implementation wise, it would be easiest if
> > qa.d.o/dose would just dump the raw data that dose3 generates in its own
> > output format without any further processing. That data then would of
> > course not include any urls and that's why I mentioned the stable URLs.
> 
> I think for the tracker we would want a custom format, in case the
> dose3 raw data format/schema changes.

right. I think that makes sense.

> > I am fighting with "human-readable results pages" myself for years (See
> > http://bootstrap.debian.net/cross.html for example) and found that the
> > graphical display that Ralf created for qa.d.o/dose is superior to any other
> > that I have ever seen so far (including the Perl implementation on qa.d.o which
> > does not give me a proper explanation of the problem). If you know a more
> > "human readable" solution to display complex situations like this:
> >
> > https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/src_unstable_main/1437022805/packages/apertium-eo-ca.html
> 
> If that page mentioned Depends/Build-Depends/etc instead of using
> arrows it might be more understandable.

but will also become quite crowded. Maybe it would help to have a link which
gives a short explanation of how to read the overviews.

The only possible meanings for the arrows are Depends/Pre-Depends or
Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep/Build-Depends-Arch. Do you think it's
important to inform about from which field a dependency is coming from? Or are
you only saying that it is not obvious that the arrow is describing a
dependency relationship?

> Also a proper graph ouput with graphviz might be more understandable.

dose3 can currenly output explanation graphs (in dot format) like this
(rendered as png here):

https://mister-muffin.de/p/Ay6S.png

which in this case, explains this conflict:

https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/unstable_main/1437109207/packages/accessodf.html

Do you have any suggestions of how this graph output can be improved? Then I
can make the necessary improvements in dose3.

Also, currently, only distcheck can output explanation graphs. But I will add
the same functionality to buildcheck if you think it's useful.

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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