[Matthew Palmer] > Yup. It's been posted before (it's called rc-alert). I've got a > copy here; if you can't find it in the archives (recently, like < 6 > months) e-mail me and I'll send it to you.
And if you want to figure out why a valid package still fail to enter testing, you can use <URL:http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl>. I make a summary of the update_excuses file with links and annotations available from <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff.html.gz> and <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz>. You might find it interesting.