Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2002 10:05 schrieb Olaf Stetzer: > Hello Matt, > > being a debian developer _and_ user myself, I understand your thoughts, > especially when it comes to communication about package status. As a > developer you sometimes need to know the status of other packages _your_ > package depends on (such as e.g. libqt), the same goes for users wanting to > know about the status of package foobar. There is the BTS but this is only > tracking bugs, and is sometimes hard to use (some packages have ~100 > entries there). Since you are offering help I can make a proposal for a > system which could propably fill this communication "gap": I think of some > sort of database, propably a mixture of sourceforge and db.debian.org which > will provide easy access for developers to put in some information which > currently is sitting on hundreds of "private" homepages. An example could > be the X strike force. It would be much easier to browse e.g. > > http://package-status.debian.org?xserver-common > > than to search for the XSF-page. > > I myself, would like to have a place, where I could just drop a line > saying, there will be a new version of my muse package when the new > upstream version 0.6 is stable. So users could find this information > easily, rather that sending me emails asking this question. > > I would be glad to hear input from other DD's about this proposal! > > Olaf
I forgot to mention, that a link to the changelog of all available versions of a package would be very helpful. I remember there used to be a link to changelogs from packages.debian.org pages but only to the stable version IIRC. Olaf -- Dr. Olaf Stetzer Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Institut f�r Meterologie und Klimaforschung Atmosph�rische Aerosole (IMK III) - http://imk-aida.fzk.de Tel.: +49(0)7247-82-3249 (FAX: -4332)
