Re: Misc Developer News (#38)
> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> > Will be on d-d-a when the next DevNews is posted:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews#Google_Code_closing
>
> How about check and warn it with watch and lintian?
>
> e.g. https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=mecab was hosted in Google Code,
> and if so, warn "hosted site will be closed (January 25th, 2016)" with
> Packages overview and lintian.
I used this to locate games hosted on GoogleCode that had moved
(I found&fixed opentyrian, gargoyle-free, lincity-ng),
this parses the copyright file:
grep code.google -R /usr/share/doc
grep googlecode -R /usr/share/doc
Parsing a list of all watch files would be better of course.
Alexandre
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