Here's an idea for y'all. Apologies if this has already been thought of/discussed/voted down...
What if Debian had a utility that you could run that would connect to one of the machines at debian.org or wherever and check the version numbers of all of the packages installed on the user's system. For example: /home/someuser> vercheck debian.org Connecting to debain.org ... Connected! "smail" - Your ver: "3.1.29.1-12", current ver: "3.1.29.1-13" Get it? n "netbase" - Your ver: "1.19-2", current ver: "1.20-1" Get it? y Downloading .................... Saved as /tmp/netbase-1.20-1.deb "pppd" - Your ver: "2.1", current ver: "2.2-1" Get it? n etc, etc... I could write something like this (both the server and the client end), but you guys might want to give this to someone who's more of a coding god. Does this seem like something of value, or no? I know it would be REALLY nice for an end user like myself... always trying to keep my packages current. Hell, you could even have the utility optionally run dpkg on the packages after it downloads them. - Joe
