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Bug#945206: tracker.debian.org: Broken binaries link in glibc page



On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 09:09:20 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Alexandros Prekates wrote:
> > Visiting https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/glibc
> > i noticed many dead links in the binaries section
> > of the page.
> 
> Those are binary packages that the glibc source package can build but that
> it only builds on non-release architectures... so indeed the binary
> packages are unknown by packages.debian.org which only knows about
> packages available on official mirrors.
> 
> And the list of binary packages is currently taken from the "Binary" field
> in the .dsc and there we don't have any detail about architecture support,
> etc.
> 
> The tracker also doesn't scan all architectures currently (for performance
> reasons) so it doesn't know which binary packages do really exist across
> all architectures.

These could be switched to use the Package-List field instead, which
contains this information.

Thanks,
Guillem


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