RFE: qa helper task - track upstream versions
I've got a request of a nice task for anyone interested to implement.
The state of all the XSF packages is summarised at
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-x@lists.debian.org
You can readily see which versions we currently have, in stable,
unstable, experimental.
It would be nice to be able to easily with a glance compare our latest
versions to upstream's latest versions, found at
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/
The qa page does in fact have this facility. There are columns somewhat
to the right under the heading "Watch". As I understand it, there is
some hook that can be set up somewhere, somehow, to parse the data at
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/ and determine what the
latest upstream version and add a blink tag if we don't yet have it.
It would be a really really nice service if someone could figure out how
to set up the hooks and get the Watch columns doing something useful for
us. I'll even throw in a free beer if you can find me in Real Life :)
Drew
i was joking about the blink tag
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