Hi everyone, I recently took a few minutes to have a look at orphaned packages. (Un)Fortunately they didn't need an upload, so they're ok. But then I thought, how do you know which packages I already looked at? So this is about avoiding double work. (If there already is a solution to this that I simply didn't know, please tell me NOW :)) Using a fairly comples UDD query, some wml stuff on merkel and then a few ugly php hacks, I've written a page that displays all orphaned packages and next to them a button "checked". Once you click it, the package get's an entry for this. To spot problems colors indicate possible issues. Unless someone asks, I won't go into detail here. I uploaded a sample page to alioth [1] for you to check out if you like it. It includes a very small subset of packages but the data is real (although not updated from UDD). Please, click around a bit. When viewing all orphaned packages the page gets quite long. I know how much some of you hate javascript but a simple hide/show funktion attached to the package details might seriously be a good idea if this should be used with real data. Hauke [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~jhr/orphan-check.php PS: To be a bit more precise about implementation: the package data is fetched during page creation (wml -> php) from UDD; the info about a package being checked or not is stored in a db4 file. For more ask me (or look at the code but don't hit me then).
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