Re: debian-doc files on the Debian web server

Hi,  (Sorry)

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 18:14 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi Osamu,
> 
> Am 3. November 2021 15:45:44 MEZ schrieb Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I finally made update to the cron script so we don't rely on FTP protocol.
> > url = [email protected]:webmaster-team/cron.git  
> > 
> >  526ebd0 ("Download deb via HTTP", 2021-11-01)
> > 
> >    No more use of FTP protocol
> >    
> >    Ensure to avoid unnecessary downloads of non-sid packages and already
> >    downloaded packages.
> >    
> >    unpack once and do not reprocess
> >    
> >    Signed-off-by: Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>
> >    
> > 
> > I stop making a copy of doc.  I don't see the following data are used any more.
> > > $crondir/ftpfiles/doc
> > 
> > Although it was tested on my machine, since this is rather big change, I am afraid
> > something may break.
> 
> As far as I can see, the installation-guide source
> packages are
> no longer downloaded by 1ftpfiles.
> This was handled by this line:
> 
> wgetfiles installation-guide installation-guide_* 

I thought this was some kind of left-over.  Sorry, you are getting *.dsc file and
tarball here.  When I wrote wgetfiles, I didn't anticipate such uses.

> Now, building of installation-guide can no longer work.
> (the lessoften-parts/1installation-guide script relies on the
> source files to be existing in $ftpdir/pool dir.)
> 
> Or did I miss something?
> 

Give me sometime (2 days), I have some idea.  Instead of Packages, we need to
download Sources there.  Then it is trivial to download correct version.  No rmadison
complication needed.

> > Holger: You are building installation-guide from source.  Even though this is on
> > 'lessoften' side, it is quite heavy process.  Since new 7doc can handle stable and
> > oldstable, using 7doc may be an idea.
> 
> Will see, what can be done Herr.

This is longer term ... no rush.