[Utnubu-discuss] Utnubu automatic notifications by section/subsection

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 25/07/06 at 02:36 +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> On 24/07/06, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> >> I am part of the Debian Games Team and I was wondering if it would be
> >> possible to get automated notification when a game package is added to
> >> the Ubuntu repository or when one version of teh Ubuntu package
> >> superceeds the one of the game package in Debian.
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >This kind of things is quite easy to do using MultiDistroTools[0] (it
> >would be great if I could find a co-developer for it too), especially if
> >you have a grep-dctrl expression which matches all your 'interesting'
> >packages.
> >
> >If you provide me with one, I can add it to my daily run of
> >multidistrotools, so the data will show up on
> >http://tiber.tauware.de/~lucas/versions/
> I looked at grep-dctrl man page but it wasn't obvious to me which are
> the commands. AFAICT, this should be ok:
> 
> -FSection -r '[Gg]ames'

The list of packages matching this is now generated daily on
http://tiber.tauware.de/~lucas/versions/
( or 
http://tiber.tauware.de/~lucas/versions/games.html directly)

> >> In a more generic way the questions are:
> >> - can automated mails be generated (subscribtion needed) when ubuntu
> >>   packages superceede debian packages (or are there and not here)
> >
> >Sending mail smells a bit like 20th century ;) What about an RSS feed ?
> I personally don't like RSS feeds as they tend to not fit my regular
> work pattern and impose internet connectivity to get the checking
> done, but others might like them. I personally would prefer email, as
> I tend to keep todo lists as  emails.

I'm not sure we need another tool to monitor this kind of stuff,
since the DDPO is going to support this... I don't have time to work on
such a tool currently.

> >It would be quite easy to change multidistrotools so that it generates
> >one, and you feed reader would notify you when one of the package status
> >changes.
> >
> >Also, I've recently filed a bug against DDPO, so the ubuntu version
> >number of the packages are displayed (bug #379063).
> 
> >[0] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiDistroTools
 
See http://tiber.tauware.de/~lucas/versions/
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