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Bug#447180: marked as done (Conflict between packages.debian.org/<dist>/<section> and packages.debian.org/<dist>/<package>)

Your message dated Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:22:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#447180: Conflict between packages.debian.org/<dist>/<section> and packages.debian.org/<dist>/<package>
has caused the Debian Bug report #447180,
regarding Conflict between packages.debian.org/<dist>/<section> and packages.debian.org/<dist>/<package>
to be marked as done.

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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal


Hi,

When I wanted to see information on the "perl" package, I searched with
a keyword "perl" and I got an exact hit in the result page[1].  However,
when I clicked a link labeled as "sid (unstable)", I saw a page for
"perl" section.  The link URL was http://packages.debian.org/sid/perl,
which can be interpreted both as "perl package in sid" and as "perl
section in sid".  Since the URL was used in everywhere in the package
page (e.g. a link labeled as "perl" in the "Other Packages Related to
debhelper" area in the debhelper package page[2]), I could not go to my
destination, the "perl package" page.  Finally, I found a link to the
"perl package" page in the "perl section" page.  The URL of perl package
page was http://packages.debian.org/sid/perl/perl.

The same happens for "python", which is also a name of a package and
name of a section.

Could you please supply some resolution of this kind of name conflicts?
I think using the packages.debian.org/<dist>/*/<package> URL for
packages instead of the packages.debian.org/<dist>/<package> URL will be
effective, but it requires a change in the URL interface.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=perl
[2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/debhelper

Many thanks,

-nori


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On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:58:52AM +0900, Kobayashi Noritada wrote:
> When I wanted to see information on the "perl" package, I searched with
> a keyword "perl" and I got an exact hit in the result page[1].  However,
> when I clicked a link labeled as "sid (unstable)", I saw a page for
> "perl" section.  The link URL was http://packages.debian.org/sid/perl,
> which can be interpreted both as "perl package in sid" and as "perl
> section in sid".  Since the URL was used in everywhere in the package
> page (e.g. a link labeled as "perl" in the "Other Packages Related to
> debhelper" area in the debhelper package page[2]), I could not go to my
> destination, the "perl package" page.  Finally, I found a link to the
> "perl package" page in the "perl section" page.  The URL of perl package
> page was http://packages.debian.org/sid/perl/perl.
> 
> The same happens for "python", which is also a name of a package and
> name of a section.
> 
> Could you please supply some resolution of this kind of name conflicts?
> I think using the packages.debian.org/<dist>/*/<package> URL for
> packages instead of the packages.debian.org/<dist>/<package> URL will be
> effective, but it requires a change in the URL interface.

A workaround is in place now. /sid/perl and /sid/perl/ now do different
things.

A proper fix (that will deprecate the /sid/<section>/ urls for a more
robust scheme) will come sometime.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

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