On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:28:51 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > What exactly do you think the machine-parsable index would be needed > > for? > The only reason I can think you would want the index is if you want to > differentiate between packages with just packaging added, packages with > changes outside debian/ and packages with patches in debian/patches/.
Such an index might also be interesting for UDD or PET or other tools that want to display the "patch status" and/or patch number. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Sinéad O'Connor: The State I'm In
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