On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 17:28 -0400, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Johannes (2021.09.03_09:09:02_-0400) > > we currently carry Debian mirror URLs in many different packages. It > > would be great if there could be one package that shipped a machine > > readable list of the currently correct mirror URLs for each distro. > > I've put some thought into this bug (and similar ones) over the years. > > I like the idea of distro-info & distro-info-data taking on more > responsibility, but it probably means we need to redesign the data > schema. I'm thinking YAML/toml data. > > That in turn means rewriting the distro-info libraries (at least to > provide a new API for the new data). > > I'd be tempted to write the canonical implementation in rust and have > bindings in Perl/Python/C. But we could also have completely separate > implementations as we do right now. > > So, basically, from my PoV, the reason this bug has languished is > because these are big changes and I haven't felt the urge to start on > them. If somebody were to propose a data model, I'd be happy to review > it and discuss next steps.
I can only say +1 for that. I am tempted to use distro-info as another good real world use case to write some Rust. YAML or toml would be the fitting data storage format. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
