On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:47:26PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know about a ready-made script that would extract all > package names and maintainers of packages depending on X from the > Packages file, and send e-mails to them, replacing the package name for > some boilerplate text in a text I feed it: I'm not sure about a ready-made script, but it shouldn't be too difficult to write one that uses whodepends(1) from the devscripts package. Example output: % whodepends xserver-xorg Dependent maintainers for xserver-xorg: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org> (ldm) Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org> (xfree86-driver-synaptics) Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org> (xdmx xserver-common xserver-xorg-dbg x-window-system-core) HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
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