On 27/08/2020 12:37, Max Magorsch wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Any plans on using the remoteid from metadata.xml ? >> It's likely to be much more accurate since people have been filling >> those manually for some time now ;) >> > > I think we could use the remoteid in future to improve the repology > warnings. However, I am not fully convinced that we can completely > replace the repology check using the remoteid, as a simple grep shows, > that currently 9873 packages contain at least one remote id. That's > just half of our packages in the tree. So I could imagine that we do > use the remoteid whenever it is available and otherwise fall back on > the repology data. However, for this to work we would need to things > imo: > > 1) Get the latest version available given the remoteid > 2) Compare the latest version available with our latest version > > It's especially the second part that I think is not done that quickly. > However, if anyone is interested in coming up with some logic / code > for this, any contributions are highly welcome. > Another cool addition, thanks :)
While we're on the topic of remoteid, could you please add links for those somewhere in the package page? I opened a bug for this a long time ago and I think it would be a nice addition to the HOMEPAGE URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/657018
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