Hi,
Enrico did sunset debtags some time ago and there are some people who
would want to try to keep the service alive. While doing some research
on how debtags used to work, I stumbled on this bug...
Enrico wrote in 2019:
Hello,
so far, Debtags updates to the archive still happen with me manually
doing an upload, and I'd like to free myself from that commitment.
Is this still the case - and if so does that mean there have not been
any updates recently?
How does that work - I see that there are override files on [0], but how
was/is the output of debtags integrated into those override files?
At DebConf18, as the result of a conversation with Ansgar, I prepared
these links to export overrides from the archive, so that they can be
pulled directly from ftp-master's side:
- https://debtags.debian.org/exports/overrides/main
- https://debtags.debian.org/exports/overrides/contrib
- https://debtags.debian.org/exports/overrides/non-free
I thik I'd prefer this approach over having access to do manual updates.
Has anything ever happened with those exports?
And a related question: once a Debian release is stable, do the
overrides still get changed? Or do the updates of the debtags database
only affect the overrides of unstable?
cheers,
Birger
[0] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/
