Actually i use in Dehs a simple function (dpkg based) to see if the package is updated against upstream:
function is_updated ($up_vers,$debian_vers) { if ($up_vers=='') return 0; passthru("dpkg --compare-versions '$up_vers' eq '" . vers_conv($debian_vers) . "'",$great); if ($great!=0) return 1; else return 0; } I see that in uscan upstream version has added another tag for dehs called status. Actually is an human readable string. I think that devscripts developer could add a machine readable also a coded machine readable dehs tag for status so i could use directly uscan output for version compare. P.s. i cc this to pkg-devscripts team Regards, Ste -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]