How to track a specific sub-set of packages
Hi all,
I want to track a specific sub-set of packages, namely those listed by
apt-cache search "multimedia|audio|music"
And ideally merge various other bits of information from the BTS.
If any one of you could take the time to explain the best way of going
about this, I would very much appreciate some guidance. I have been
lurking on this list for several months now and I've been all over
qa.d.o, packages.d.o &c. and I probably could figure a long handed
approach, but it would take me a month of Sundays. The critical issue is
how to access the data in an easily parseable form, particularly the
wnpp info. I'm currently reading through the scripts in the reportbug
package, it seemed a reasonable place to start looking.
I'm not a DD, which is probably obvious, nor have I ever studied
computer science. Two things that make me quite an effective idiot
tester. I would like to learn how to do proper methodical testing of
multimedia packages, focussed on audio applications. My intention is to
provide qa support for Debian-multimedia.
This is part of a move to formulate a proper Debian multimedia Policy
and integrate A/DeMuDi packages back into the main tree.
As I say, any pointers, guidance, hints etc. would be very much
appreciated at this stage.
cheers,
tim hall
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