[Pkg-electronics-devel] Prospective packages of your Blend from your Git repositories (Was: Moving project like fpga-icestorm to Debian Electronics)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ruben,

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:08:45AM +0200, Ruben Undheim wrote:
> > 
> > OK, I'm checking the log of the metadata gatherer from time to time and
> > will see what else I might find. 
> 
> Great. Which metadata gatherer are you talking about? Something you have made
> yourself?

I've written a script[1] which is daily browsing all repository of
Blends teams (and some language teams that are potentially packaging
Blends relevant packages).  The result is stored in an archive[2] which
is consumed by an UDD gatherer.  You can for instance access the result
via

export PGPASSWORD="public-udd-mirror"
psql --port=5432 --host=public-udd-mirror.xvm.mit.edu --username=public-udd-mirror udd

select * from blends_prospectivepackages where blend = 'pkg-electronics' ;


The main purpose is to feed the Blends tasks pages with information
about prospective packages.  In Debian Med you can see the usage for
instance here:

   https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#pkgvcs-debs

It enables you to just mention

  Recommends: acacia, amos-assembler, apollo, axparafit, ...

and all other information is finally from the daily status of the Blends
Git repositories.  So feel free to add not yet uploaded packages of
Debian Electronics in your tasks pages and users get the information on
what software you are working on.  It will be displayed on the relevant
tasks page.

> Btw. the Debian Electronics Blend has now reached Debian unstable. :)
>  (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-electronics)

Nice.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/blends-team/website/blob/master/misc/machine_readable/fetch-machine-readable_salsa.py
[2] http://blends.debian.net/_machine-readable/

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