On 16/02/09 at 23:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> writes: > > 2) improve awareness of orphaned packages. During the QA BOF, the idea of > > a script taking as input a list of packages (the list of locally > > installed packages on a DD's system, for example), and outputting the > > list of "problems" (RC bugs, O/RFA bugs) was raised. There was > > opposition to providing this as something enabled by default in > > devscripts, but it would still make sense to provide such a script. > > wnpp-alert and rc-alert already do this, don't they?
They do, but they could clearly be improved a bit, so every DD could have them running in a crontab and be notified when packages they use are buggy or orphaned. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
