On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:54:26AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 05:46:59AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > > > We could have some framework for such apps (and for things like CPAN, > > > > RubyGems and so on) to offload maintaince burden for us, though... > > > > > > Actually, I'd love to see the ports in question in until there is such > > > framework. I always do ports for anything I install, as it is much easier > > > to deal with packages then hunt all of these things down manually. > > > > > > I use neither of ports in question though. > > > > Nice contradiction. Why to have old and probably buggy apps > > in ports if nobody uses them? > > > > Instead of a framework for web apps it would be better to > > have a tool to check if an app's version in ports is equal > > to one of upstream, and compare those versions. > > > > It would help to detect apps which are very old and which > > would be probably not used. > > You can try and port http://www.inerd.com/software/portscout/
Debian packages have it in itself. $ cat debian/watch version=3 opts=pasv ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet-(.+).tar.gz jirib
