Bug#717834: Fwd: Kill DEHS
On 27/08/15 at 09:45 -0400, anarcat wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:01:46PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > Package: qa.debian.org
> >
> > DEHS service at http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/ looks alive, but in
> > fact it is dead and its database is offline for almost two years,
> > which is shown by multiple reports in ML over that time
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/dehs-devel/
> >
> > It's time to kill it so that it won't confuse people anymore, and
> > redirect people from http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS to something like:
> >
> > 1. ROSA Upstream Tracker - see it in action -
> > http://upstream-tracker.org/updates/rosa/2012/ - it is GPL'ed, so it
> > should be easy to port it to Debian.
>
> This now says it is unmaintained:
>
> http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/
>
> "Unfortunately, we cannot support the service anymore. Sorry for
> inconvenience. The suitable replacement for this tool will be available
> at github.com/lvc soon. ROSA Laboratory, 21 July 2015. "
>
> The database itself says "has been generated on 2014-09-04"... so is
> probably not a good way forward.
>
> > 2. http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~lucas/merges.html
>
> I am not sure how that helps.
>
> > 3. http://duck.debian.net
>
> Maybe?
>
> > 4. Anything else?
>
> So what's the solution here?
>
> Should we bug duck people to implement this?
>
> UDD seems to help here, but it does much more than this...
Given that UDD does more, it could also implement a stripped down
version. But I'm not sure what is the functionality you are looking for.
Monitor a specific package using RSS? Stats?
Lucas
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