publish dead.package contents for retired packages

[tyll]

Please include the contents of the dead.package for the respective branch of retired packages to make it easy to spot where this was missed.

[pypingou]

At the moment the only source of information is datagrepper which queries messages of fedmsg.

I don't believe fedmsg publishes information from the dead.package, so it would imply having a way to get it, either http request against pkgs.fp.o or cloning the git repo. I might consider the first approach, the second makes me really uncomfortable.

[ralphbean]

You could probably construct a URL in constant time to something like this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/geoip-geolite.git/tree/dead.package

If those links were present in the report, would that suffice?

[tyll]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:11:49PM -0700, Ralph Bean wrote:

You could probably construct a URL in constant time to something like this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/geoip-geolite.git/tree/dead.package

If those links were present in the report, would that suffice?

Actually I would prefer to get the actual contents (it is also the only place where one might find a reason for the retirement). I am thinking about code like the following:

def get_dead_package(package, branch):
    git_map = {"devel": "master",
           "F-20": "f20",
           "F-19": "f19",
           }
    git_branch = git_map[branch]
    dead_url = \
        'http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/{0}.git/plain/'\
        'dead.package?h={1}'.format(package, git_branch)
    dead = requests.get(dead_url).text
    dead = dead.strip()

And then maybe a call for each branch and a check whether the dead.package files differ. I can take a look into providing a patch, if you would integrate it. A different possibility would be to enhance the fedmsg git topics with a special topic about whether a dead.package file was added or removed to a branch. Currently there is only the generic receive notification.

[pypingou]

I would be fine with getting the content of dead.package in devel (and would accept the patch), I'm less fan of checking every branches.