archive-admins/MIR/stable+1: Improvements to component-mismatches

[Kate Stewart]

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 09:56 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:25:42PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Hello Ubuntu developers, archive admins, MIR and stable+1 team,
> > 
> > One of the archive consistency reports that we have is
> > "component-mismatches", which shows universe packages which want to
> > get pulled into main by existing main packages, or main packages which
> > can now go to universe, etc. This is useful to know which MIRs we need
> > or which packages need their dependencies fixed.
> > 
> > This report hasn't been very easy to read, especially when it was very
> > long. This has bothered me for a long time, and now I finally found
> > some time to hack on it (I'm on the stable+1 team this month).
> > 
> > The textual report
> > 
> >   http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt
> > 
> > now shows if a package has a MIR bug and its status. It also marks
> > reverse dependencies which are already in main with "(MAIN)" which is
> > easily searchable. This makes it easier to see which ones are the
> > "top-level" packages.
> > 
> > But even with these it's still not quite easy to see the structure. So
> > I proudly present
> > 
> >   http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.svg
> 
> Now that's pretty sweet.  How did you generate the SVG tool-wise?

Very sweet indeed.   Pointers to the code/tools please!  :)

Kate