[Popcon-developers] How are the popcon-web/*.sections files
generated?
Bill Allombert
allomber at math.u-bordeaux.fr
Fri Nov 11 16:04:49 UTC 2005
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 01:21:43PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:35:14PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >
> > The popcon.pl script used to generate all the web summaries seem to
> > read the following files
> >
> > popcon-web/potato-nonUS.sections popcon-web/slink.sections
> > popcon-web/potato.sections popcon-web/woody-nonUS.sections
> > popcon-web/slink-nonUS.sections popcon-web/woody.sections
> >
> > Here is an example from woody.sections:
> >
> > 3270-common non-free/net
> > 3dchess games
> > 3dwm-clock graphics
> > 3dwm-csgclient graphics
> >
> > How are these files generated? Should we make new ones for sarge and
> > etch?
They are generated manually. The format is
<package> <section>
Care must be taken to not forget platform-specific packages.
> Only one for sarge, but it is not urgent.
I added the file sarge.sections. Note that we also read the stable
package file, so this is useless until etch release.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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