On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 09:28 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > pabs, what’s the current status on this?
Mostly at the 'collecting information' stage; about what hard-coding exists and what requirements there might be etc. > AFAICT, you mentioned you wanted to come up with a spec on the > RepositoryFormat wiki page. I don’t see that on the RepositoryFormat > wiki page yet. I wrote a couple of sketches of possible ideas here: https://wiki.debian.org/SuitesAndReposExtension#Possible_solutions FYI the repository format page has moved here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format > Is there any way to help? Help on this is very much welcome as I don't have much time for it. Go through as many Debian services as possible, look for hard-coding of suites, codenames, architectures, compression formats etc and add it to the SuitesAndReposExtension wiki page and send patches to reduce hard-coding by getting architecture info from the archive or suites information from the ftp-master API. https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/list_paths > I’m also interested in this issue due to hardcoding in manpages.d.o, > which I’ve now described on > https://wiki.debian.org/SuitesAndReposExtension#manpages.debian.org Thanks for that. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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