r6094 - /scripts/qa/versioncheck.pl

[dmn at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: dmn
Date: Mon Jul 30 09:19:48 2007
New Revision: 6094

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=6094
Log:
Update TODO: checking only packages on command line already implemented; add notes for ls-lR parsing from CPAN

Modified:
    scripts/qa/versioncheck.pl

Modified: scripts/qa/versioncheck.pl
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/scripts/qa/versioncheck.pl?rev=6094&op=diff
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--- scripts/qa/versioncheck.pl (original)
+++ scripts/qa/versioncheck.pl Mon Jul 30 09:19:48 2007
@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@
 # Would be very nice if version-mangling options of debian/watch are supported
 # so 0.2200 (cpan) gets equal to 0.22 (debian) when this is described
 #
-# Add support for checking list of packages, given on the command line
+# Instead of using CPAN.pm, parse ls-lR.gz from the CPAN mirror. The file is
+# ~3MB large, but expands to 68M!
+# Parsing should make it easy to quickly check for available versions using the
+# watch stanza. Perkaps keyed on dir name, separate for by-module and
+# by-author. Perhaps the parsed tree could be stored on disk with Storable to
+# avoid re-parsing if the data is still fresh. This would make running uscan on
+# CPAN-hosted packages pointless.
 
 our $THIS_REVISION = '$Id$';