Niels Thykier wrote: > > Based on the script I think you should just go with "Packages maintained > within the team"; we have plenty public/team packages there needing our > attention. > > Personally I would prefer knowing that I am dealing with a package I can > fix right away - instead of having to ask the maintainer of it for > permission and all that. >
What about http://people.debian.org/~mehdi/udiff/java/ ? >> - There is some false positives (like -build* versions). I can filter >> them out but I'd like to keep them in the list. > > To see which packages may need a sync-request in Ubuntu? If so it would > make great sense to hide the packages where Debian does not have a newer > version. > Packages needing sync request are those with a greater version in Debian. I can show them, if needed. >> - There are a lot of (simple) changes that can be synced back. >> - There are 76 packages in the list. >> - The script can be used to see the changes in packages of another team. >> All you have to do is to change the query at line 35. >> >> I will try to sponsor every backport announced on this list when the >> changes are relevant/applicable/valid. >> >> [1] http://people.debian.org/~mehdi/java/grab-packages.sh >> [2] http://people.debian.org/~mehdi/java/pkg-java-maint-pkgs.txt >> >> [3] grep-dctrl -FMaintainer [email protected] >> Sources.Debian | wc -l >> >> [4] The interesting part is its output, not its source code :) >> >> I hope that some of you would help me to backport these changes (when >> relevant) and some comments or ideas for improvements, >> > > Sure, I do not mind preparing a package or 5 when I am not busy. > > I ran your script and noticed that it occasionally spits out an error > from dpkg-parsechangelog. I could not figure out what caused it though. > They appear from time to time. I've fixed some of them (see comments in the script) but I'm sure there are others. > I would also like if it could provide the link for the Ubuntu patch (the > one PTS links to) - it saves the time to look up the package on the PTS > (or creating the link manually). > Done. -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
