On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:48:21 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Feature request: > > Am Montag, den 18.08.2014, 13:33 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > > > > > It does this as follows: > > > > > -Look in the britney output for the autohint that contains the > > > > > requested package. > > > > > -Get all the packages it breaks. > > > > > -Gather all excuses for that broken packages. > > > > > -Throw all excuses away, except those that are identified as > > > > > interesting. > > it would be great if it would throw away "out of date" problems (or at > least annotate them) if the package is in state "BD-Uninstallable", as > it usually means that some dependency did not build. That's right. Do you know if it's possible to query the status of a package in plaintext from the buildds? The only idea how to get the status of the package is to parse the HTML, which is a lot harder than parsing plaintext. Regards Sven
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