[Utnubu-discuss] idea for testing if ubuntu packages are buildable in unstable

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:56:32AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> Hi,
> While looking at ubuntu's glom I discovered some build-depends not available in
> unstable. So, yesterday night just before falling asleep I had a vision: (no, I
> wasn't on drugs)
> A script that will iterate over http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/missing-packages
> and starting from ubuntu's Sources will discover all missing build-depends in
> unstable. I'm about to start coding it within one week, help appreciated :)

I found some time to put together this script, it is available at
http://people.debian.org/~filippo/check-FTBFS.py

with sample output of today's data (20050920) at:
http://people.debian.org/~filippo/check-FTBFS.html

right now it is a little "rude", lacks versioned build-dep checking and requires
python-apt :)

filippo
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