Re: DWN

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 06:13:17PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:
> 
> > I also appreciated the package summaries at the bottom of DWN.
> > (e.g. these are new packages in the archive this week, these packages
> > have been orphaned, etc).  Is there some other easy way to find that
> > information?
> 
> aptitude tells me about new packages.  Orphaned, offered for adoption
> and requested help for packages are posted weekly to -devel as
> "Work-needing packages report".

There is an RSS feed for it, but unfortunately I can't remember the
link. Not everyone uses aptitude or runs unstable.

-- 
Chris.
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" ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of
rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government
conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness."
Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005.