On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 18:12 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm confused about this. We have several additional archives ATM, for > instance security and lts. Does the above mean that the maintainer of an > infrastructure piece that spans multiple archives will have to > separately retrieve the metadata from each of them?
In general yes, see below though. > There is certainly value in keeping the metadata close to the > corresponding data, but Debian as a project should IMHO also centralize > somewhere all information about all its official archives. Are you > ruling out a scheme that would provide such a single source of > information? I wouldn't rule anything out. I do think placing the relevant information in the archives themselves is the best option for some cases, plus some central data on ftp-master to bind them together (repos list). Providing a central data source would be OK too (probably easier for some services, depending on what data they want), as long it is automatically generated from the canonical data sources (projectb etc). -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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