outdate reporting script that does universe/multiverse too

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Apr 6 12:39:53 BST 2009


On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:21:55PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:42:16PM +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >> I was thinking of adding Packages-arch-specific parsing to it, to
> >> highlight one particular cause of persistent outdates. Would that most
> >> usefully be done as part of the same report, or an entirely separate output?
> > 
> > If it can easily be an existing column in the same report, I think that
> > would be fine and might save some confusion trying to track down build
> > failures that don't exist.
> 
> To celebrate Celso fixing Soyuz' interpretation of P-a-s
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311952), I have an update (in the same
> bzr branch) which appends:
>   [P-a-s: <architecture list>, <reason given in comment if any>]
> to each report line.
> 
> Example:
> amiga-fdisk 0.04-12 amiga-fdisk-cross(i386) 0.04-11 from 0.04-11
> [universe] [P-a-s: m68k powerpc, m68k/powerpc specific]
> 
> The addition requires that the script be configured with the filename of
> a suitable Packages-arch-specific file to read.

Thanks; I've installed this and configured it appropriately.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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