[Popcon-developers] Re: question about "not in sid"-maintainer

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:17:09AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
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> Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 12:08 schrieb Bastian Venthur:
> > Hi popcon-devs,
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> > I have quick question about the way popcon decides that a package is not in
> > sid.
> >
> > I am currently not yet a DD but I already maintain a view packages which
> > are officially in sid. When I -- courious as I am -- take my daily look at
> > popcon.debian.org, i can see something like
> >
> > ...
> > 15715 crystalcursors           15     0     0     0    15 (Not in sid)
> > ...
> >
> > Crystalcursors is one of my packages and it *is* in sid, with me as
> > maintainer. So I wonder, why my name does not appear? Is it, because I am
> > not a real DD or it is a bug?
> 
> Could it be, that the machine on wich popcon.debian.org runs (alioth?) has not 
> executed "apt-get update" lately? If so, does someone know, in which period 
> this usally happens?

popcon.debian.org run on gluck.debian.org which carry a full Debian
mirror which should be updated at each mirror pulse (i.e. daily). The
packages files used are thoses of the mirror.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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