Debian Bug report logs - #941969
whohas displays wrong information for diffoscope on Archlinux

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: whohas displays wrong information for diffoscope on Archlinux

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 11:02:05 +0200

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Package: whohas
Version: 0.29.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

$ whohas diffoscope
[...]
AUR         		<td>103-1</td>                       3 		http://aur.archlinux.org		<td>103-1</td>
[...]

while https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/diffoscope/
shows that Archlinux (proper, not AUR) has version 125-1.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#941969: Acknowledgement (whohas displays wrong information for diffoscope on Archlinux)

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:24:51 +0000

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hi,

so, what I learned:

- diffoscope-git is a git package which is some kind of YOLO arch
  package, which updates itself to the latest git version on
  installation. (so the version number is meaningless.)
- so ${pkg}-git should probably be ignored if the is a ${pkg} package
  too.
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories_web_interface
  is what the name implies.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eli Schwartz <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Arch Linux API for getting package information

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:04:07 -0400

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In order to get information about a package, you add "json/" to the link.

So, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/diffoscope/
becomes https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/diffoscope/json/

Since this hardcodes architecture and repository information, you could
do a search and get json instead.

Given this exact-name search:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=diffoscope

You can get json like this:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?name=diffoscope

You should generally only get one search result due to the exact-name
search, but if the package is in both the "community" repository and the
"community-testing" repository, you could end up with two results, the
-testing version being newer.

You could either try to check that by hand, or add the search terms

&repo=Core&repo=Extra&repo=Community&repo=Multilib

to hardcode which repos you want to search in.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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