Bug#1016059: DDPO,Package Tracking System: move to UDD as a data source for lintian?
Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hi,
lintian.debian.org has been out of date since end of 2021. The question
of its future has been raised with DSA:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2022/07/msg00006.html
UDD now has its own importer for lintian data. It also provides a
drop-in replacement for https://lintian.debian.org/static/qa-list.txt as
https://udd.debian.org/lintian-qa-list.txt, and a web interface to view
detailed results per package at (e.g.)
https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?dpkg , which DDPO and PTS could use as a
link target.
I suggest that DDPO and PTS move to using UDD as a data source for
lintian.
https://udd.debian.org/lintian-qa-list.txt is refreshed on a regular
basis while the importer is running. So DDPO/PTS can sync for example
hourly.
Minor caveat: the semantic for qa-list.txt was a bit poor:
1) for packages both in unstable and experimental, lintian-qa-list.txt
show stats for packages in unstable.
2) packages not in unstable are not listed.
3) it does not provide a column for tags of type 'information'.
I suppose it is OK to keep it like that.
For reference, the UDD code the generate the data is
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/-/blob/master/rimporters/lintian.rb#L380
Lucas
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