Hi, Lucas Nussbaum écrivait: > > >> There are quite a few reasons why a package could be removed. At the > > >> moment, how-can-i-help cannot tell why so it provides you with qa link > > >> (so you can check yourself). Why do you think it is a bug? > > > > > > It would have been better if the qa link could be parsed and those > > > bugs known but as shared perhaps a non-issue or something that could > > > be tackled later perhaps. > > > > Yes, that is an interesting and most likely doable idea. It would > > probably require some back end changes (as we should not reveal the list > > of installed packages by querying QA pages directly). Maybe it's not on > > the top of the TODO list, but I'll give it a though (and ask Lucas if it > > is doable from his point of view). > > Another option is to add the reasons to the JSON. That would only > require work on the UDD side. I'm not sure of how hard it is to do, you > might want to ask Ivo De Decker about it (ivodd@d.o).
As there can be several reasons for a package being removed, it might be wise to provide a single link in how-can-i-help to excuses.php [1] and keep one line items. Otherwise that script parses an html page [2] generated by britney, I don't think the same data is available in UDD but for what is relevant here one might just filter out the bugs table on the severity level, and ignore the dependency problems which are currently out of scope. Cheers, Christophe 1. http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=apt-dpkg-ref 2. http://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html
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