Re: kde 3...PROPOSAL: Package status db
Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2002 10:05 schrieb Olaf Stetzer:
> Hello Matt,
>
> being a debian developer _and_ user myself, I understand your thoughts,
> especially when it comes to communication about package status. As a
> developer you sometimes need to know the status of other packages _your_
> package depends on (such as e.g. libqt), the same goes for users wanting to
> know about the status of package foobar. There is the BTS but this is only
> tracking bugs, and is sometimes hard to use (some packages have ~100
> entries there). Since you are offering help I can make a proposal for a
> system which could propably fill this communication "gap": I think of some
> sort of database, propably a mixture of sourceforge and db.debian.org which
> will provide easy access for developers to put in some information which
> currently is sitting on hundreds of "private" homepages. An example could
> be the X strike force. It would be much easier to browse e.g.
>
> http://package-status.debian.org?xserver-common
>
> than to search for the XSF-page.
>
> I myself, would like to have a place, where I could just drop a line
> saying, there will be a new version of my muse package when the new
> upstream version 0.6 is stable. So users could find this information
> easily, rather that sending me emails asking this question.
>
> I would be glad to hear input from other DD's about this proposal!
>
> Olaf
I forgot to mention, that a link to the changelog of all available versions
of a package would be very helpful. I remember there used to be a link
to changelogs from packages.debian.org pages but only to the stable version
IIRC.
Olaf
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