On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:07:58 +1200 Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27 June 2012 19:51, Federico "fox" Scrinzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > The main question is: what would you like to have on this dashboard? > > Currently (in the development version) there's the possibility to > > login and watch/unwatch packages/categories/herds/... and see the > > watched stuff in the account dashboard. We're planning on > > implementing a weekly(?) custom newsletter based on the packages > > you're watching, which features would you like? > > > > The project repo for the GSoC is here: > > https://github.com/volpino/euscan > > > > Thanks! > > > > For the most part it seems to get upstream / portage versioning right, > but occasionally you get miss-matches for some reason. > > It would be nice to allow to provide some mapping mechanism that > existed on the overlay itself to inform euscan how to map upstream > versions to downstream ones, but implementing that would be far too > complex I feel. > > Instead, it would be nice to have a mechanism in the interface to set > a "Upstream version is" value for each package if euscan can't tell. > > Ie: > > http://euscan.iksaif.net/package/dev-perl/HTML-TreeBuilder-LibXML/ > > Upstream is 0.71 , portage is ( normalised ) to 0.710.0 , and these > are in fact the same version. So in 0.710.0 , it would be nice to be > able to set the upstream version manually to 0.71 so that euscan no > longer reported it as outdated. I think we could actually handle perl pretty easily. I believe euscan will start using CPAN API to check the package versions, and we can embed the normalization there. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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