Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org Usertags: udd Hi, In order to aid in cross-distribution collaboration, it would be useful to have more information about packages from other distributions. A number of yum based distributions exist that either are a derivative of Fedora or use Fedora's EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) so I would suggest this as the starting point. I wrote some scripts that use the public Koji API although these are incredibly slow. I was looking at using a Koki database dump, although this isn't an advertised public interface and may be restricted or taken away without much notice. Following some discussion in #debian-qa, it looks like the best approach will be to use the yum repos themselves as a data source. It will take time to go through all the packages and extract the information, but once the information is extracted it will be only updated packages that will need to be reprocessed. Fedora uses Red Hat's bugzilla instance for bug tracking. There is a CSV interface to this that allows the export of bugs information. This data will also be useful to #685605 in order to provide semantic linking to other distribution's packages in the "Linked Data Cloud". Previous efforts at matching packages across distributions have been documented on the wiki at: https://wiki.debian.org/Mapping%20package%20names%20across%20distributions None of these appear to be presently maintained, although I may be mistaken. This is a task on my queue, but it's quite near the "future" end of my queue. If you feel you'd like to have a stab at this, please go ahead. I'll take ownership of this bug when I start if no one else has stepped up before then. Thanks, Iain. -- e: irl@fsfe.org w: iain.learmonth.me x: irl@jabber.fsfe.org t: EPVPN 2105 c: 2M0STB g: IO87we p: 1F72 607C 5FF2 CCD5 3F01 600D 56FF 9EA4 E984 6C49
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