Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:57:03PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> > You can imagine harvesting alioth.d.o and extracting all debian/control >> > stored in whatever $VCS you find there, but you can't be sure if this >> > is the currently used $VCS, if there are other versions of the package >> > versioned elsewhere, ... Plenty of room for false positives. Even >> Why debian/control? debian/changelog provides the source package name and >> the latest version. Matching data with the latest Sources of unstable >> should do the trick to know what is up to date in the $VCS, and what >> isn't. > > Uhm, interesting, you mean testing if the changelog version is greater > or equal than the latest in unstable, right? This still leaves the room > to the very same package version, greater than latest unstable, which > has been moved from one VCS to the other before being uploaded, but I > guess it is a pretty remote case.
I believe the number of false positives will be very very small, and if one takes a look at what would be done there's a chance to spot them. > > Cheers. > Cheers, Raphael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
