Re: people.names updating
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:09:39PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > There are currently some scripts on www-master updating people.names file
> > with maintainer names, packages, and homepages. I'd like to:
> >
> > * fix them to use an updated set of homepages, using that data acquired
> > from LDAP
> > * get them to run on the normal 6-hourly run
> >
> > The cron/scripts_weekly/people/people.pl operates on
> > cron/scripts_weekly/people/homepages file, but it seems it could use
> > cron/scripts_weekly/homepages.dat with only minor adjustments.
>
> I'd like to switch everything to use apt-cache for extracting package
> information. This couldn't be done before, because we needed features
> in potato's version of apt (which wouldn't compile on slink).
So you'd like to get apt-cache to read the downloaded Packages files and
produce results per-maintainer? I think we could do it with just grep-dctrl
or dlocate.
> We also need to think about how the info currently on the people page is
> organized. It makes the most sense to me that it and the info on
> db.debian.org be combined. One idea is to have a script that searches on
> maintainers and the result page lists the packages maintained and the
> public info in the ldap database.
If the data from db.d.o would be used, why not have it on there? I don't
have access to that, tho...
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