Hi, On Thu, September 4, 2014 22:04, marc zonzon wrote: > I have the same problem with apt-file v 2.5.2.3. This bug is caused by > the inaccessibility of dde.debian.net which is a cname for > paganini.debian.org and there is no more any DNS for > paganini.debian.org. > > > The role of Debian Data Export (DDE) is explained in > https://wiki.debian.org/DDE, but the alternative dde given in this > page http://debtags.debian.net/dde does not exist. debtags.debian.net > is actually running on glinka.debian.org, but has no longer the DDE > database API. > > In any case the url of the DDE is hardcoded in rapt-file script, so is > not supposed to be changed. It seems that this package is no longer > maintained, I don't see any other explanation.
In fact, there is another explanation: the dde.debian.net service is unmaintained, not apt-file. I've sent an email to debian-devel enquiring if there's interest to take over this service. > If you wanr to look for a file in the debian database without > downloading the content file of all packages, the better alternative > is to use the search interface from > https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. It should not be very > complicated to change rapt-file to use the search form there! Screen-scraping HTML seems also prone to break during the lifetime of a stable release, so I'm not sure that would be an improvement. If that service would get a machine-parsable interface, that might be a good option. Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
