Bug#955268: udd watch: "429 too many requests" from GitHub
Package: qa.debian.org
User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: udd
Some packages have a dash in the watch column of
qa.debian.org/developer.php and this error message on tracker.debian.org:
uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:
In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/tags failed: 429 too many
requests
Which packages have this error seems to vary over time, but it seems to
be common (~50-90% of GitHub upstreams - e.g. see
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-go-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org
but note that a dash can also mean "no debian/watch" or another error).
I don't know if this was triggered by GitHub introducing/lowering their
limit, by a bug on our end making more requests than we intended to, or
by our generally increasing size. (Currently 9490 GitHub-hosted
packages each checked every 3 days, according to
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/-/blob/master/rimporters/upstream.rb#L174
and codesearch github\.com path:debian/watch.)
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