clone 497410 -1
reassign -1 qa.debian.org
user qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org
usertag -1 + pts
thanks
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:36:06PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> In my opinion, packages.d.o is the right place for this (rather than the
> PTS) because it is more directed at users and people outside Debian.
Well, I do want to have links to the patch tracker also from the PTS.
The reason being that even from the package maintainer point of view it
is quite important to have a look at the list of Debian patches (as a UI
I'm currently thinking at a drop down menu linking to both the overview
page and to the single patches).
> There does not appear to be a machine-parsable index of all the packages
> with patches and their versions, would this be possible to add Sean?
For the PTS, the better form would be a global index that can be
downloaded routinely containing for each (source) package the list of
applied patches. From the used format it should be possible to construct
mechanically all the relevant URLs (link to the per-package package and
links to the per-patch pages).
The need of a global file is to be able to download all information at
once, instead of hammering the patch tracker.
I presume the same format would be suitable for packages.d.o.
Cheers.
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