Re: Fwd: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:05:39PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote:
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> > What I want is a way of keeping an eye on packages in one of these
> > metapackages to see that they are at least vaguely up to date and not
> > full of RC bugs. I was then going to add it to
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience in the hope that scientists will
> > help squash bugs in the science packages - and spot that maintainers
> > have gone MIA.
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> I guess you want this
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> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs.php
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> for Debian Science, right?
Yes exactly what I was after - except that it doesn't track the
upstream versions.
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> > To achieve this, it would be possible to construct a URL by hand - but
> > if I do this, it will rapidly become out of sync with the
> > metapackage. It ought to be possible to generate this list from the
> > package - but that wouldn't be possible in the wiki (I don't
> > think). Is there another easy way that I've missed.
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> Well, the way to go is to factorize the nice work which was done by
> David Paleino for Debian Med to work for all CDDs. I started with the
> tasks pages (and finished this part as you probably know) but I will
> work on the bugs pages as well.
That would be good.
I actually prefer the layout of this page - particularly as it gives
bug titles, but have a small concern that it is repeating the same
work.
> I hope that I will find some time
> when beeing at DebCamp / DebConf. Feel free to start working on it
> if you like... :)
:-)
>
> PS: You should probably inspect the whole site
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> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/
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> for other nice features that might be ported for all CDDs.
Yes I'll have a look - though I'm not sure when I'll have time.
Thanks,
Chris
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