Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:55:13AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > For packages.debian.org, why not extract the changelog and the copyright from > the diff of the source when building the pages ? Something like > filterdiff -z -i '*/debian/copyright' package.diff.gz Amazingly enough, this wouldn't

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-10 Thread Bill Allombert
For packages.debian.org, why not extract the changelog and the copyright from the diff of the source when building the pages ? Something like filterdiff -z -i '*/debian/copyright' package.diff.gz Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is no record of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] package, and no bug

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:18:35AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Often I want to know "Should I install the unstable version or will the > stable version be sufficient?" > > Currently there is no way to tell, you can't see the Changelog until after > you have downloaded it. It should be possible to

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > If there were a reliable and complete source of changelog data > programmatically available over the network, and a means by which > apt-listchanges could be launched by apt before any packages are downloaded, > it would be easy to m

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:44:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > see apt-listchanges, which is a great tool for looking at changelogs > > > be

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:44:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > see apt-listchanges, which is a great tool for looking at changelogs > > before you install packages. > > Hardly everybody has got a full Debian mirror in the same rack. ;-) If ther

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > see apt-listchanges, which is a great tool for looking at changelogs > before you install packages. Hardly everybody has got a full Debian mirror in the same rack. ;-) -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:04:00PM +0100, tomas pospisek wrote: > On 8 Dec 2002, No?l K?the wrote: > > I started to make the changelog and copyright file of the Debian > > packages online > > Ah! Wondeful. Would be nice to have it integrated in the frontends ... > "do I want/need to update this to

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread tomas pospisek
On 8 Dec 2002, Noèl Köthe wrote: > I started to make the changelog and copyright file of the Debian > packages online Ah! Wondeful. Would be nice to have it integrated in the frontends ... "do I want/need to update this to the latest unstable version yet - let's check the changelog ..."? Very ni

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:49:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I started to make the changelog and copyright file of the Debian > > packages online available at: > > > > http://changelogs.credativ.org/ > > We should be able to start using the lintian lab on gluck for this again > now that

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:33:10PM +0100, No?l K?the wrote: > I started to make the changelog and copyright file of the Debian > packages online available at: > > http://changelogs.credativ.org/ We should be able to start using the lintian lab on gluck for this again now that lintian is run