Hello, I have just finished the first 90% (that is, I have a decently working beta version, but some things are still suboptimal) of something that could be vaguely described as
Package: debcrawler Section: admin Priority: optional Version: 0.19 Depends: boa | httpd, lynx | www-browser, dpkg (>= 1.4), dpkg (<< 1.5) Description: browse your Debian binary packages via WWW debCrawler (completely unrelated to a well-known web indexing service) is a small tool to search the local database of installable Debian *.deb software packages for various criteria and display the results through a web browser. It does not attempt to cover package management. The output is formatted in a fashion that aims at readability on several different web browsers, including lynx. . debCrawler is a CGI application, so a http daemon with CGI support must be set up on the local machine. Note that dhttpd does *not* support CGIs (that means you have to use another httpd implementation). It was inspired by hours of screen-staring in front of dselect, some grep/sed/perl orgies with "available" and, of course, <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages>. I'd be glad if some of you would try it and send me comments and bugs. I'd be even more glad if somebody could package it (I am no Debian developer yet, there are some technical problems, and I don't have the time to overcome any of these two obstacles at the moment). You can get it at <http://fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~brill/debcrawler-0.19.tar.gz> Thanks Bj"orn Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frankfurt am Main, Germany
