[Popcon-developers] removed packages and popcon

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:06:13PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was looking at the unknown packages category on the site and noticed
> that a lot of them are actually packages that used to be in Debian but
> were removed. I wonder if it would be interesting to differentiate
> between packages that were removed from Debian and ones that have never
> been in Debian. If that would be interesting, I think we can get a list
> of removed packages by querying the snapshot.d.o database and also from
> the PTS, which has something IIRC.
> 
> Thoughts?

The popcon server already maintains a list of packages from previous distributions,
so it can put packages in the correct sections, so packages in "unknown" have
never been part of a release.

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

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