list of package names, versions[, descriptions]

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 21:44:32, Greg Minshall wrote:
> would it be possible to (put on the list to) provide at some point a
> "packages-versions.gz"?  or, even, "packages-versions-descriptions.gz"?
> (though the former is probably of more general use.)

It's possible and I am fine with doing that. However, we won't
regenerate those files too often and you'll have to accept that they
will be slightly out of date.

If a lot of people start downloading these files, we might need to
consider using CDN/mirrors.