[maemo-community] [maemo2midgard] Re: Application catalog feature request

[From: Guillem Jover]

Hallo,

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 14:41:58 +0200, Ferenc Szekely wrote:
> ext Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I think the catalogue thingy in general is a workaround for the lacking
> > of a proper repository where the "community" can upload packages after
> > whatever reviewing steps may be needed, or whatever trust has been
> > given to known members of such community.

> Might be a workaround, but it is there, pretty concrete and not just an
> urban legend like some other tools we have been discussing in the past ;)

Well, we have those tools running, the fact that we discontinued that
work was due to other issues... and yes I agree it's good to have
something that works, that does not mean we have to strive all the
time for workarounds (even from the beginning ;).

> > Supported already by packages.d.o.
> > 
> > There's also:
> > 
> >   <http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cloud/>
> >   <http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ssearch.html>
> >   <http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/fts.html>
> > 
> ...

> > > I don't remember where I read, but I think you can also organize
> > > dedicated changelog repos Guillem might know more
> > 
> >   <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dbus/current/changelog>
> >   <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dbus/current/copyright>

> Do these tools work with dak, or are they using the dak database?

The tools work in general with a repository, which is just a view from
the dak db, some of them (like the developer.php), may gather and thus
show additional info if it has access to dak's projectdb.

> If yes, then I will not bother checking them (reason: we have no dak).
> If no, then please point me to the sources of these tools.

So it's a no and yes, but you can use them. ;)

The sources for DDPO and PTS:

  <http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/qa/trunk/>

For the packages.d.o:

  <http://cvs.debian.org/packages/?root=webwml>

For debtags:

  <http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debtags/web/trunk/> and maybe
  <http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debtags/cgi-bin/>

(Those are the web access methods, you have normal svn and cvs access
methods for those).

regards,
guillem