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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Aug 28 12:43:52 UTC 2019


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 ?

Thomas
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