Re: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/ not accessible any more

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 05/21/2015 11:21 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I noticed that the ftpnew gatherer for UDD is currently broken.  The
> reason is that it is usually fetching files via
> 
>    wget -q -r -N --level=2 --no-parent --no-directories http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/
[...]
> It seems it is forbidden to read the web dir directly.  Any reason for
> this and if it is intentional what would be the alternative to fetch
> data about packages in new?

I don't know exactly why this changed (maybe different default in
Apache?), but scraping web pages seems a suboptimal way to gather
information.

There is [1] with machine-readable information about packages in NEW.

Ansgar

  [1] <https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822>