Bug#1134366: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org requires javascript

Hi,

Am 21. April 2026 16:45:19 MESZ schrieb Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>:
>Yes, I'm assuming we are running into such kind of tools[1]. Maybe you can
>forward to a person running / operating this tool from the Debian
>side, maybe some kind of "cookie" or such could allow access for
>legitimate users.

I guess you need to contact DSA for this.

>We pull the actual packages from a mirror, this call just is the
>beginning of the extraction of the package version, then the script
>automatically builds the download link from a mirror, and that part
>(the actual download) did not show any problems so far.

So it's just to determine the version number of the package in unstable?
If yes, rmadison (from devscripts) could also be a very lightweight alternative to achieve this:

`rmadison --arch=source --suite=unstable bash | awk '{print $3}' | tail -n 1`

>(And before you ask - I'm upstream in this role, my co-maintainer does
>not use Debian and runs these scripts as well, so local data is not
>possible).

If this means, that packages not only from Debian are used, so that you need a solution which works for several distros, then rmadison is of no use probably, since it's Debian-only.


Holger



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