On 04/11/07 at 18:44 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everybody, > > I've written a set of scripts which read the no_upstream.html page of > DEHS[1] hoping to notify the maintainers of the packages listed there about > the debian/watch file not reporting upstream's version. > > The scripts also perform some checks on the message reported by uscan, to > detect whether it is a real problem on the debian/watch file or just a > temporary problem. > > The scripts are designed so they don't send different bug reports to the > same package until the first bug is closed (I've to manually remove the > packages from the generated database). > They are also able to skip packages in case the maintainer doesn't want to > be notified. > > At the moment I've let my scripts send only one bug report[2] to demonstrate > how the generated messages look like. > > At the time of writing my scripts report to have found 827 packages listed > in no_upstream.html. > And after skipping entries for packages in experimental and removing entries > that are considered to be temporary failures they would be sending around > 785 bug reports. > > Is there any objection for not letting my scripts fill bug reports? > Comments? Suggestions? or any other kind of feedback? :)
I like the idea, and think that you should go ahead with reporting the bugs. However, if you are interested in that stuff, it could be a good idea to contact the DEHS maintainer: there might be a way to integrate this into DEHS, and avoid the HTML parsing ;) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]