>> > That way one could tell, even when offline, if a package hasn't been >> > updated in ten years. >> I hope we don't have any of those. > And those that we have, we can also spot them by old Standards-Version > in lintian warnings.
> If anyone can suggest me a decent heuristics to spot a 'rotting' package > (like, for example standards-version older than X, but you need to tell > me what X), I can automatically mine it and turn it into a debtags tag. There is no such heuristic. Just because a package last upload is long ago doesn't mean the package is outdated/broken/whatever. It may mean that, but it may also just mean that there was no reason to update it. -- bye, Joerg "If you are using an Macintosh e-mail program that is not from Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication" -- http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
