Publish package set information in Packages index files
Bug #1089379 reported by
Colin Watson
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
As part of the long-running Ubuntu "archive reorg" effort, it would be helpful to have package set information published in the Packages files, presumably in a similar format to the existing Task fields (so for example "Package-Set: ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu").
A few use cases would be selective mirroring (http://
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| tags: | added: packagesets soyuz-publish |
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
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I just thought of an obstacle to this, which would have been obvious if I were less doped up on painkillers: package sets contain source packages, not binary packages! I've heard of cases where the security team has deliberately asked to support only some binaries from a given source. So, I don't think we can use this to replace Supported after all, taking it off the table for archive reorg.
I'd like to leave this bug open, though, as I still think it would be useful for package set information to be available a bit more easily without having to scrape it from the API, and the Packages file seems like an obvious way to do that. The partial mirroring case is still interesting there.