On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:53:13 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > finally, last night I decided to solve the pending issues around dist/ > URLs when using the CPAN cache. Thanks alot! > Silly me, of course it doesn't show unofficial versions of modules or > distributions, I think that's a general question if we want to have them in Debian or not; I don't have enough experience regarding released vs. developer versions to have a real opinion on that issue ... > I've tried to use the find-ls.gz file, > which looks much better than a ls-lR, but CPAN is SO fucked up that > this file seems to lack *some* files in the by-authors hierarchy. Ouch. During my experiments with packagecheck I also found that most of the times the /by-dist /by-authors and /dist views show the same versions, but for some modules they are inconsistent for no apparent reason. > To sum it up, I guess we've been too naïve about CPAN; we should think > on how to cope with all this chaos. We can not rely too much on > following individual distributions, as we're about to reach 600 of > these. May be we should think of using some custom watchfile that > could do queries on module names or something like that... Hm, "custom watchfile" reminds me of Bart's watchupstream script/package which offers something like that IIRC. Maybe you could take a look at it to see if it could help us? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Neil Young: Oh, Lonesome Me
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