Hi, I would like to ask for comments on my plan to find a reasonable way to produce QA pages for a "certain set of packages". The idea behind this is that David Paleino has created nice pages for Debian Med at
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/qareport.cgi which is an adaptation of the script which is used by the perl packaging team written by MartÃn Ferrari. The problem is that this works only on packages which are handled in SVN - but the Debian Med project has interest in more packages. Moreover related Projects like Debian Edu, Debian Science and Debian Junior which should also profit from the code I want to write currently have even less packages under control of their packaging team. The rationale behind this is that these projects are not about packaging software but assembling a set of packages inside Debian for a certain purpose which might be maintained by random maintainers. So the approach to parse SVN does not work. Another possible view on QA information might be http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] which displays the packages which are maintained by the Debian Med packaging team - but this shows even less than the packages in SVN because some maintainers are using our SVN but stay with maintenance of a single person for certain reasons. So the question is: Is there any reasonable general interface for QA information assembled on these pages that can be work on a set of packages I can give as input? I have written some code that parsed the tasks files which are used by these projects to provide a nice overview about the packages in question. You might like to have a look at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/index.html or http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/index.html which easily answers the question what packages I have in mind and show the problem that these are maintained by different maintainers. I'm wondering whether I should use the Universal Debian Database or whether there are other means to obtain information about bugs, version number in Stable/Testing/Unstable, upstram version via watch file, lintian problems etc. Any hint is welcome Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
