A large number of Debian packages now has upstream metadata, including links to
upstream repositories (Repository-Browse) and bugtrackers (Bug-Database /
Bug-Submit). Would it be possible to link to those from tracker?

Hello,

It's of course possible but is there something already extracting all
those values and making them available in a convenient way? Maybe UDD?

Otherwise we first need to implement something like that which can be a
bit of a pain.

Usually the tracker fetches some external file and turns it into PackageData
entries that can then be easily displayed for example with a
LinksPanel.ItemProvider to add links in the "Links" panel on the right.

If we have to extract the upstream metadata on our own, then we should
modify distro_tracker/extract_source_files/ to extract it and add some
new Task to parse those files after they have been extracted (or do it
directly in extract_source_files but that would be a scope expansion for
that Django application).

FWIW, I don't plan to work on this (at least not in the short term) but
I'll happily review MR and answer questions.

Cheers,

Hi Raphael,

They're actually already available in UDD:

udd=> select key, value from upstream_metadata where source = 'dulwich';
        key        |                          value
-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------
 Bug-Database      | https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich/issues
 Bug-Submit        | https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich/issues/new
 Repository        | https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich.git
 Repository-Browse | https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich
 Security-Contact  | https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich/tree/HEAD/SECURITY.md
(5 rows)

udd=>

I might spend some time on this, but would appreciate any further hints
on where to add this if the information is available in UDD.

Jelmer

Hi,

The first step would be to make this data available in a JSON file that we
can download from UDD. Lucas usually add some .cgi exporting the data
on request.

Then it's a matter of adding a Task that fetches the file and generates
whatever we want. I just implemented something similar adding links
for debian/patches metadata. So you could have a look at the approach taken
in https://salsa.debian.org/qa/distro-tracker/-/commit/181db12111b35f9f54e5ed07654d34cff604feb3

Cheers,