On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:36:06 +0200, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > Well I would like to get the versions of a long list of perl > modules. That list is the Phalanx 100. I then build debian package > names out of that list with some data munging and finally call > `aptitude show libfoo-perl` and grep the version number. Then I compare this > to what exists on debian.pkgs.cpan.org to see which package is older. > > I realized that Tincho does this already and thought that I could > save a lot of time just using the code in qareport.cgi. > > But that tool uses some DebianQA modules that are somewhere - just > not on CPAN. Right. IIRC Tincho was thinking about publishing PET (as it's named nowadays) on CPAN. > So I have to dig around alioth I suppose (which is not a > bad thing really, just less than ideal) to find them as opposed to > just getting them from CPAN. FYI: it has its own alioth project now: http://pet.alioth.debian.org/ http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pet/ > > > I can create > > > a more "entry-level" document for those of us who do not have your > > > gifts? > > That would be interesting to have. > I'll get started writing that. Thanks! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Ludwig Hirsch: Piratenschiff
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