Bug#353874: developers-reference: [mass bug filing] Please describe how to sort packages by maintainer name

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Frank K??ster wrote:
>> Package: developers-reference
>> Version: 3.3.6
>> Severity: wishlist
>> 
>> When proposing a mass bug filing, or also when alerting debian-devel in
>> advance, it is recommended to include a list of affected packages in the
>> mail, sorted by maintainer.  There are some scripts around (I don't
>> remember the names, that's why I looked in the developer's reference)
>> which can be used for this.  
>> 
>> The section in developer's reference should refer to these scripts.
> You're probably thinking of devscripts:
>   - dd-list: given a list of packages, pretty-print it ordered by maintainer
> and perhaps also
>   - whodepends: check which maintainers' packages depend on a package

Yes, thanks.  I'll see whether I can write a sentence or two to fix this
bug. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)