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Make a python module for python-debian
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- function to read the value database
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- function to open the database read-only
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Add a --stop option to stop a running update-apt-xapian-index
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- Disabling the update in postinst via a preseedable debconf
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Date the package was last touched (from the "Latest News" section of the QA
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page, e.g.: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geomview.html)
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Index as a post-hook of dpkg/aptitude/apt/whatever the first installation date of packages (and also the last upgrade date)
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Debstemming: only needed indexing-side, can be done by a plugin and integrated with extra keywords installed by packages in a lintian-override kind of way
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Downloading extra fluff:
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- one pkg per source or kind of source
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- get apt to do it, if possible
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- run integration script
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- get apt to run them fetcher style, in parallel, if possible
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- index by update-apt-xapian-index
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- get it to be done after integration scripts have been run
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Reporting status (syntaxes to be reused):
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- dpkg has --status-fd with some format
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- apt fetchers report status as well somehow
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Source lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
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- could be added in /etc/apt/sources.list.d if it exists
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- could be added in postinst, commented out on remove and removed on purge
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(possibly using patch, or maybe ucf)
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- could be added as a separate sources.list activated by an apt.conf.d entry
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Detecting last install/upgrade time
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- check what time /var/lib/dpkg/PKGNAME.list gets created
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- checking its mtime for upgrade
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- useful for weekly builds
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- dpkg hooks (like man hooks) if possible to run on every package
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- useful for incremental updates
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