Package branch freshness

[Martin Pool]

On 20 July 2011 12:21, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 08:00:00 PM Martin Pool wrote:
>> It would be good to get that rmadison into lptools or ubuntu-dev-tools
>> - even a moderately hacky state would be useful.
>>
>> In general any feature that might conceivably have bad consequences or
>> not be what people want probably ought to be behind a configuration
>> option, and I think this is in that class.
>
> We already have an rmadison in devscripts that supports both Debian and
> Ubuntu.  Please, if you're going to add another script, call it something
> else.

I was imprecise: I meant "that rmadison-like-tool".  If it's
technically feasible and will not break existing uses perhaps this
could be merged into rmadison itself, otherwise perhaps it could be
'urmadison' or some other name.

Martin