[Popcon-developers] question about "not in sid"-maintainer
Bill Allombert
allomber at math.u-bordeaux.fr
Fri Nov 11 17:55:18 UTC 2005
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:54:19PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Bastian Venthur, 2005-08-25]
> > Hi popcon-devs,
> >
> > I have quick question about the way popcon decides that a package is
> > not in sid.
>
> It looks at the package list in the mirror on the machine it is
> running.
>
>
> I had a closer look, and I believe this is because of a bug. The
> uncompressed package lists are no longer in the mirror for sid, so the
> 'dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages' glob do not match any files.
> We need to teach the popanal.py script how to read the compressed
> files instead. And we should do it in a way that works with python
> 2.1. Python 2.3 seem to have support for reading gzip files directly,
> but I'm unable to get it to work with 2.1.
Now that gluck run Sarge, we can use python 2.3, so I fixed this bug by
using gzip.open. I think we use Packages.gz files everywhere now.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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