Bug#1127814: UDD: archived_descriptions table is empty

On 13/02/26 at 14:36 +0100, Joenio Marques da Costa wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: udd
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I'm using UDD for the 1st time and I've tried to find the long description for
> the archived packages in the table archived_descriptions but that table seems
> to be empty.
> 
> I've tried the UDD dump [1] and also the UDD public mirror [2], on both cases
> the table archived_descriptions looks empty. Am I missing something or the
> archive_gatherer is not collecting the descriptions for the archived packages?
> 
> - [1]: https://udd.debian.org/dumps
> - [2]: https://udd-mirror.debian.net
> 
> Thanks for your attention,

Hi Joenio,

Sorry for the delay.

It looks like descriptions haven't been imported for a long time, which
probably means that importing them is not that useful, since nobody
noticed before you did.

What is your use case for them?

Best,

Lucas