On 31/07/15 at 16:04 +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Package: how-can-i-help > Version: 11 > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-kali > > In Kali we would like to detect when Debian package that we are using > are at risk (mainly for testing autoremoval for now). Thus we want > to run "how-can-i-help -s testing-autorm" as part of a jenkins job. > We would benefit from a structured output to be able to do things like: > > * fail only when when the removal date is less than 15 days > * filter out some packages that we don't care about (because > we have our own fork, or because they are only recommends, > etc.) > > Obviously we can parse the current output but it's sub-optimal.
Hi Raphael, Wouldn't it be easier for you to use the data exported by UDD? https://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz the how-can-i-help simply downloads this and compare with the list of locally installed packages. Lucas
