[Piuparts-devel] for 0.81: preparing for some larger changes

[Holger Levsen]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:51:23AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 77936220e network issue: E: The repository '.*' no longer has a Release
> file.
> abf86c2a3 p-r: catch URLError
> 29d47e6e9 dwke: move some methods to piupartslib/dwke.py
> f3cbc5920 *.py: consistently name and use file I/O helpers
> f17fe88a3 *.py: consistently use 'with open(...) as ...:' for scoped
> open files
> 77ecca997 p-r: check for master directory separately
> 8036a9dbf dwke: prepare for inserting some locking scopes

all taken, thanks!

just one thing:

-    [os.mkdir(x) for x in workdirs if not os.path.exists(x)]
+    if True:
+        [os.mkdir(x) for x in workdirs if not os.path.exists(x)]

is surely just a preparation for more changes to come?! ;)

> 5cf466d84 p-r: make verbose messages more consistent

I didn't see this one?!
 
> And here I have a naming problem, again, ... :-)
> 
> consider we have a package foo in stable2backports2testing
> with the following versions available:
> stable: 1 (or 2~debXu1)
> backports: 2~bpo1 (and 2~bpo2 soon)
> testing: 3
> 
> We get the candidate packages from backports, but override the
> version (2~bpo1) with the one from the final distro (3), which
> breaks "outdated" detection (e.g. 2~debXu1 > 2~bpo1).
> 
> Ideally we should identify the test with the full sequence of
> version numbers (1,2~bpo1,3) instead of only the target version (3).
> This would automatically trigger a test on backports (or stable)
> updates, not only on testing updates (e.g. (1,2~bpo2,3)).
> 
> For single distro tests (e.g. sid), nothing changes (it's a
> 1-element sequence of versions).
> 
> How should we name this (1-to-n-element) sequence of versions (and, for
> the time being, the 1-element approximation using only the final distro?)

1-to-n-element? ;-)
 

-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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