I spent a couple of hours a couple of weeks ago building a Perl script to extract some information about open PowerPC-related bugs from Debian's database and give me some text reports. Since then, I spent a bit more time setting it up to generate a nice HTML file. That HTML file is available from my Web site, at <http://www.eskimo.com/~c/debian/bugs.html>.
At the moment, the script tracks bugs that have the string ``PowerPC'', ``PPC'' or lowercase variants, as well as any bugs filed by me, and a few others I'm interested in following (like one for squishdot and one for zope-worldaccess). I'm currently generating the list and uploading it by hand, although I may set up a cron job to build the list once a week and upload it. (If you're wondering, I can't make the script run as a CGI because the data file is (at the moment) 4.2 MB. Since I have a total of 10 MB of space on that account, some of which is used for other purposes, that's not remotely practical. I also seriously doubt that my ISP would be at all happy about having that much data downloaded frequently). The script is also fairly slow because of the time it takes to build the hash table before it can do any real work. (Once the table is initialized it takes very little time to generate the reports.) If you want your PowerPC-related bugs to show up in the list, be sure to mention that they're PowerPC-related in the Subject lines of your bug reports! CMC +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHC, DS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
