On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:30:03PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 07:56:58PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > > > As say in the title it would be nice to have a column with upstream version > > in > > the developep.php page (base on the debian/watch files as for the PTS > > webpages > > for packages). It could be a nice way to see which packages need an update > > :) > > > > Not so many packages use the watch file.
this is true, I opened [1] a thread exactly about this and why increasing the number of watch files is good, probably the best thing to do is to manually file bugs providing (working) watch files to packages, then the maintainer will choose if use it or not, whether he/she is in direct contact with upstream developers. indeed another good suggestion is to add a lintian/linda warning as suggested by Riku Voipio [2] kind regards, filippo [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2004/debian-qa-200401/msg00042.html [2]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2004/debian-qa-200401/msg00046.html -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: yeah, that would be smart, except that it's not. -- Josip Rodin
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