Hi Gregor,
Yes that is part of my concern target but I trying also to find out more candidate contents among the package files or may be to design a remote resource for that so it would be possible to extend 'dnews' if-else-cases with one that would be to display the output of an URL base on the package name for instance. First I have build a script that tries to picture the situation in Debian based on some parameters (here release="sid" and archs="all amd64"): changelog=30189 NEWS=2409 other=12799 changelog.Debian=59702 missing=5374 debs=65076 udebs=400 packages=65606 sources=34266 projects=33479 My terminology is somewhat approximate but I hope it is quite clear: a project may have different (version) sources at a same time (think of mariadb 10.5 and 10.6 for instance), a source gives one or more packages, one package may be a udeb or a deb, etc. Then 'changelog.Debian' shows the count of (debs) having a u/s/d/<pkg>/changelog.Debian.gz or in absent a doc/<pkg>/changelog.gz that is supposed to be its equivalent (for some Debian-specific source packages). Similarly 'NEWS' is the count of the packages having a u/s/d/<pkg>/NEWS.gs and finally 'changelog' is the count of the packages having a u/s/d/<pkg>/changelog.gz 'other' are possible interesting files to look into. 'missing' are packages not in 'changelog.Debian' like 'xvile' package for instance: $ apt-file list xvile xvile: /etc/X11/app-defaults/UXVile xvile: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XVile xvile: /usr/bin/uxvile xvile: /usr/bin/xvile xvile: /usr/share/applications/uxvile.desktop xvile: /usr/share/applications/xvile.desktop xvile: /usr/share/doc/xvile xvile: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vile.png xvile: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/vile.svg xvile: /usr/share/man/man1/uxvile.1.gz xvile: /usr/share/man/man1/xvile.1.gz xvile: /usr/share/pixmaps/vile.xpm xvile: /usr/share/vile/vilemenu.rc xvile: /usr/share/vile/xshell.sh The script is currently also detecting some «collision» cases that may be interesting to check in case of there is an underlying packaging issue to be reported but I think that this is already handled, right? jtreg: /usr/share/doc/jtreg/tag-spec.html jtreg6: /usr/share/doc/jtreg/tag-spec.html jtreg: /usr/share/doc/jtreg/usage.txt.gz jtreg6: /usr/share/doc/jtreg/usage.txt.gz libboost1.71-doc: /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/doc libboost1.74-doc: /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/doc libboost1.71-doc: /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/examples libboost1.74-doc: /usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/examples python3-hug: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md python3-hug-doc: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md python3-hug: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/ARCHITECTURE.md.gz python3-hug-doc: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/ARCHITECTURE.md.gz python3-hug: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/EXTENDING.md python3-hug-doc: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/EXTENDING.md python3-hug: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/README.md.gz python3-hug-doc: /usr/share/doc/python3-hug/README.md.gz dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/DBus-interface.gz dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/DBus-interface.gz dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/FAQ.gz dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/FAQ.gz dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/README.Debian dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/README.Debian dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.Debian.gz dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.Debian.gz dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.archive.gz dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.archive.gz dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.gz dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.gz dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/copyright dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/copyright dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/doc.html dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/doc.html dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/examples/dnsmasq.conf.example dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/examples/dnsmasq.conf.example dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/setup.html dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/setup.html dnsmasq-base: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/systemd_howto.gz dnsmasq-base-lua: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/systemd_howto.gz kconfig-frontends: /usr/share/doc/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-language.txt.gz kconfig-frontends-nox: /usr/share/doc/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-language.txt.gz kconfig-frontends: /usr/share/doc/kconfig-frontends/kconfig.txt.gz kconfig-frontends-nox: /usr/share/doc/kconfig-frontends/kconfig.txt.gz Best, Patrice
