[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] pkg-stats: query release-monitoring.org with upstream name

[François Perrad]

Le mer. 28 août 2019 à 14:44, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> +Victor Huesca in Cc.
>
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:02:50 +0200
> Francois Perrad <fperrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > By default, this upstream name is our BR name.
> > But with perl-package infrastructure, the variables *_DISTNAME
> > give the CPAN name which is known by release-monitoring.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
>
> Thanks for implementing this. It matches what we discussed. The only
> possible issue that I can see is if a package defines FOO_DISTNAME for
> some internal reason, but is not a perl-package. Then we will pick up
> whatever DISTNAME contains.
>
> Perhaps we should standardize on FOO_NAME_UPSTREAM for all package
> infrastructures including perl-package, and make it a "reserved"
> variable name, so that it is forbidden to use it for anything else ?
>
>
Sounds great.
If we have our own FOO_NAME_UPSTREAM, that avoids to register "mapping" on
release-monitoring.org for any package.

When this addition will be validated, I'll cook one patch which updates
(s/DISTNAME/UPSTREAM_NAME/) the 110 Perl/CPAN packages and a V2 of this
patch.

François

Thomas
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