[Debichem-devel] Weekly infolist of updatable packages (script ready)

Michael Banck mbanck at debian.org
Wed Sep 12 00:37:26 UTC 2007


[BTW, I'm very busy with university for another week or so.  Sorry.]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:34:05AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I added a small perl script to the repository, that
> 
> - extracts the watch and changelog files from our repository
> - processes them with uscan
> - creates a report about updatable packages and packages, that miss a
> watch file

That's awesome!

> I would like to run this script once a week and it then would send the
> result to this list. Would you agree with it? Suggestions or objections?

In the long run, it would also be nice to integrate this in the
hypothetical[tm] wiki where all the packages are listed...

> It would need to whitelist my alioth mail address, because I would run
> it via crontab entry.

I'll just add that the first time you send it and it ends up in
moderation.


Michael



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