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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 123020] Re: support shipping verbatim files in the exported tarballs

Hey Celso,

Celso Providelo [2009-01-27 17:00 -0000]:
> Yes, implementing a new custom format is fairly easy, the uploaded files
> will end up in librarian.

Glad to hear it! Assuming the .changes would have a raw-*
tarball, how could I find these tarballs in the librarian?

> You should decide how is the way to expose them. From what I can see
> they don't need to end up in the repository (as d-i or ddtp-tarballs),

Confirmed, I just need to be able to find all of them mechanically,
i. e. the latest version for each source package per distrorelease.

> so we could provide web UI and/or APIs to facilitate browsing and
> download.

That would be awesome.

> I'm assuming the changes required in pkgbinarymangler are feasible, I
> can't really evaluate them.

They are, I just set it to incomplete because I don't know yet how
soyuz needs to get them fed. Would something like this be okay?

  123DEADBEEF 123456 raw-translations-static - gnome-mount_0.8-1ubuntu1_i386_translations-static.tar.gz

Thanks, Martin