Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages
On 10/08/08 at 09:42 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Marcin Owsiany]
> > I thought it might be good to ask here if I'm not trying to reinvent
> > something that already exists. Or maybe someone has some ideas about
> > this issue?
>
> One idea that occured to me, was to use the information collected by
> popularity-contest to see how many are using backported packages and
> locally changed packages, and also which packages this happen to. It
> could be input to the stable release managers on which packages to
> update in stable. :)
popularity-contest doesn't include information about packages' versions.
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