Re: [UDD] Any reason to drop view all_sources?

Hi Andreas,

> Hi Lucas,
> 
> is there any good reason to "drop view all_sources"[1].  I'm using this
> for team-metrics and while I could probably re-implement it somehow I
> would like to learn about the motivation first.

This also came up on IRC a few days ago.

I removed that view because there was no use for it internally (in
UDD-hosted tools) and it was a bit painful to update when the sources
schema changed.

It was defined as the equivalent of:
SELECT * FROM sources -- that's Debian's source packages
UNION SELECT * FROM ubuntu_sources -- that's Ubuntu's
UNION SELECT * FROM derivatives_sources;

What is your use case for it?
Usually, you don't want to scan through all those sources
(Debian+Ubuntu+...) at the same time without differenciating based on
the distribution.

I suspected that you want to use 'sources' instead (or 'sources_uniq' if
you prefer to hide some superseded packages that are still in Debian's
Sources files).

Lucas