Guy Maor writes in private email - I hope he won't mind me posting: > On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I'd like to see where we sit as far as catching up and was wondering if > > > anyone has a nice little script that will compare the source directory to > > > the binary directory and report the differences. > > > > > > I put together a little script to do it, but it's not the greatest... > > > > It can't be done at the moment, because the information isn't in the > > various files. > > The information isn't in the files, but it's in the filenames.
I'm afraid it isn't, because you can't tell just by looking at a .deb file which version of the source it was made from - or even, in some cases, which source package it came from at all. The new source packaging scheme and the tools that go with it put a Source line in the .deb file with the name and the version number if necessary. I think that since at the moment all the primary maintainers are building for i386 you'd be best off to compare binary-i386 with binary-m68k. When we've converted the packages you can do what you want easily. Ian.
