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Bug#920024: Doesn't parse package architectures correctly when any-amd64 is used (etc.)



On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:44:03 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > I've just been looking at the details for sbsigntool
> > (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sbsigntool) It looks like the tracker
> > code is confused by the architecture list for sbsigntool:
> > 
> >   Architecture: any-amd64 any-i386 arm64 armhf
> > 
> > and is just showing 
> > 
> >   arch: arm64 armhf
> > 
> > which is quite confusing!
> 
> Yeah, the data model includes a list of architectures by source package
> and the parsing keeps only entries which are real architectures, the
> architecture wildcards are just not handled.
> 
> Extract from distro_tracker/core/retrieve_data.py:
> 
>         # Convert the parsed data into corresponding model instances
>         if 'architectures' in entry:
>             # Map the list of architecture names to their objects
>             # Discards any unknown architectures.
>             entry['architectures'] = Architecture.objects.filter(
>                 name__in=entry['architectures'])
> 
> I think we don't have any code in the tracker to handle architecture wildcard
> and try to do any mapping or expansion. Given the data model, that's we should
> aim to do here. Creating all the possible wildcards would be wrong, instead we
> want to process the list of architectures that the tracker knows of and see
> whether it matches the wildcards listed in the source package field.

Feel free to use this Debian architecture wildcard matching implementation:

https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/debarchwildcardtest/blob/master/debarch.py

In my opinion this code should really live in python-debian but hasn't been put
there yet (#771058).

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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