Hi, I am maintaining too many PostgreSQL packages, and I keep forgetting which package has changes committed that have not yet been uploaded. To fix that, there's now a service running at qa.debian.org which grabs the Sources files from unstable and experimental, notes all Vcs-* URLs, makes checkouts, and compares the debian/changelog file seen there with the current version in the archive. The name I came up with - vcswatch - isn't really smart, but it says what it is about. The URL is: https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch There's also a DDPO column showing the information. Basically packages should be in state "OK" (no changes outstandig) or "NEW" (there's something waiting to be uploaded), everything else is a problem. "OLD" means that the archive is ahead of the VCS. "UNREL" is a special case of "OLD" where the versions match, but the changelog in VCS still has "UNRELEASED". "ERROR" is obviously an error. Repositories polls are randomized over 20..28h intervals, and are automatically schedules when a new package version is seen in the archive. Users can also click the "Scan now" button (or put a wget for it in their post-whatever hooks) to get a new scan at the next */5 cron interval. Supported VCS are: Bzr Cvs Darcs Git Hg Mtn Svn. There's a dozen packages in the archive announcing Arch, but these have all since moved to Git, and Arch is so weird I gave up on supporting it. There also some statistics: VCS Count OK NEW OLD UNREL ERROR Arch 12 0 0 0 0 12 Bzr 199 103 32 40 3 21 Cvs 18 4 0 0 0 14 Darcs 718 368 339 2 0 9 Git 10799 7309 2224 655 61 550 Hg 62 20 4 20 2 16 Mtn 21 16 3 2 0 0 Svn 3517 1657 1447 170 33 210 26 0 0 0 0 0 (The last line is 26 packages that just have a Vcs-Browser field with no specific Vcs-*.) Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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