On Tue, 20 May 2008 12:20:42 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> > I hope that having such metric on CPANTS will encourage CPAN developers
> > to make sure they pick up the patches from Debian and fix the bugs reported
> > in Debian.
> Excellent!
Indeed, a very nice initiative.
> - CPAN version: got that from watchfiles.
If we take care of the version mangling there :)
> - Number of patches: the problem here is the many ways of doing this
> in debian; but in the Perl Group we have more or less standarised on
> using quilt, and the few remaining use dpatch/simple-patchsys which
> are quite similar. I guess this can be added pretty easily for us, not
> for Debian in general (there are many Perl packages maintained outside
> the group).
Maybe the ideas about making patches publically available in Debian
(as discussed on http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/threads.html )
will help here.
Until then we can of course (for the pkg-perl packages, and except
the ones that don't use a patch framework) count the files in
debian/patches (or the lines in debian/patches/{series,00list}).
> The CSV generating part is trivial, the main work is on capturing the
> now missing data.
And the decision if we want to start for the pkg-perl maintained
packages (which is easier but probably difficult to extend to other
packages if we rely on our svn repo and our tools) or if we try to
include all perl packages from the beginning.
Cheers,
gregor
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