Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing
On 16/02/09 at 23:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:
> > 2) improve awareness of orphaned packages. During the QA BOF, the idea of
> > a script taking as input a list of packages (the list of locally
> > installed packages on a DD's system, for example), and outputting the
> > list of "problems" (RC bugs, O/RFA bugs) was raised. There was
> > opposition to providing this as something enabled by default in
> > devscripts, but it would still make sense to provide such a script.
>
> wnpp-alert and rc-alert already do this, don't they?
They do, but they could clearly be improved a bit, so every DD could
have them running in a crontab and be notified when packages they use
are buggy or orphaned.
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