Re: Gettext debconf templates translations : several outdated packages discovered

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:53:15AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> It strikes me that a tool that reads a list of package names and
> produces a nicely formatted list of packages and maintainers would
> occasionally be useful. That information should be greppable from
> Packages files, shouldn't it? Perhaps the tool exists already?

A very crude first attempt (for instance, it doesn't recognize source
packages correctly, only binary packages):

for PKG in `cat pkglist.txt`; do ( apt-cache show $PKG 2>/dev/null || echo Maintainer: _Unknown ) | grep Maintainer: | cut "-d " -f2- | cut '-d<' -f1 | tr -d "\n" ; echo ": $PKG"; done | sort

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