Hello, On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Sean Neakums wrote: > > How about listing packages that are orphaned on DWN once, when it > > happens, with a pointer to the full list of orphaned packages? > > Something like: > > > > Three packages were orphaned this week: blah, blorp and foop, > > bringing the total to xxx. Please see > > http://debian.org/wherever/the/list/lives for the full list. > > > > seems suitable for a user-oriented newsletter. > > You are invited to provide such information on a regular basis > phrased similar to the recently added packages item. > > That's not said to stop you.
Getting the information is really easy:
there are these "Work-needing packages report for ..." posts
to debian-devel-announce, which contain all necessary information.
Seemingly it can even be extracted automatically: if I feed
the message "Work-needing packages report for Dec 21, 2001"
into the following AWK script
#! /usr/bin/awk -f
/^Total number of orphaned packages: / { total=$NF }
/^The following packages are orphaned:$/ { active=1; count=0; }
/^The following packages are up for adoption:$/ { active=0 }
/^\[NEW\] [^ ]* \(/ {
if (! active) next;
count = count + 1;
packages[count] = $2;
}
END {
if (count == 0) {
print "No packages were orphaned this week,";
printf "leaving %d orphaned packages. Please see\n", total
} else {
if (count == 1) {
printf "One package was orphaned this week: %s,\n", packages[1];
} else if (count == 2) {
printf "Two packages were orphaned this week: %s and %s,\n",
packages[1], packages[2];
} else {
printf "%d packages were orphaned this week: %s",
count, packages[1];
for (i=2; i<count; ++i) printf ", %s", packages[i];
printf ", and %s,\n", packages[count];
}
printf "bringing the total to %d. Please see\n", total
}
printf "http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for the full list.\n"
}
I get
Two packages were orphaned this week: kdoc and ssh-nonfree,
bringing the total to 106. Please see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for the full list.
Maybe this could even be used in conjunction with procmail.
Jochen
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