Dear Maintainer,

as far as I can see, tracker.d.o seems to redo work for tasks that are
already done elsewhere.
The case I noticed is extracting files like changelogs and copyrights,
which the archive already extracts and provides in an rsyncable tree.[1]

It currently "only" extracts ('changelog', 'copyright', 'NEWS.Debian',
'README.Debian') but that list can be extended.


[1] It's currently limited to authenticated users, though we will move
that to the public ftp-master host so all can access it. But if you use
it, we will sync it directly to you, so get it updated on every update
dak is doing.

Hi Jörg,

FWIW, I'm perfectly aware of this but I want the tracker to be useful
for derivatives too and as such there is some duplication in the context
of Debian.

Maybe if dak was more derivative friendly, it could be avoided but right
now a large majority of the derivatives use reprepro and that feature
in tracker.debian.org is thus useful.

I'm not opposed to disabling the plugin which extracts those files on
tracker.debian.org and to replacing it with a Debian-specific plugin but I
don't plan on working on this myself.

Cheers,