[ pkg-perl-TODO List-300486 ] Check when our modules out-date

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TODO List item #300486, was opened at 2004-01-26 13:26
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Joachim Breitner (nomeata)
Assigned to: Gunnar Wolf (gwolf)
Summary: Check when our modules out-date

Initial Comment:
(is out-date a verb? who cares)

It would be helpful to take the script from cvs that checks the debian and CPAN versions make it run for our packages only in a cronjob on alioth and if something becomes outdated, mail a report to pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

(This should also test whether tracker notifications emails get sent to p-p-m at l.a.d.o :-))

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Comment By: Gunnar Wolf (gwolf)
Date: 2004-05-28 10:19

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Every currently registered module has a (tested) debian/watch file.
This TODO task is closely related to 300486 - I am closing only this one, as this one is regarding to having the mechanismo, and 300486 is about using it to maintain the module list up to date.

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Comment By: Gunnar Wolf (gwolf)
Date: 2004-04-26 17:43

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Ugh... Remember: No HTML in the followup :-/

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Comment By: Gunnar Wolf (gwolf)
Date: 2004-04-26 17:43

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Yes, seems pretty simple to do. In fact:

cd ~/cvs/pkg-perl/packages && uscan --report

Of course, we just have to create debian/watch for all of our modules and fix them in others - libperl6-form-perl's is not valid:
<pre>uscan warning: Can't determine protocol and site in
  ./libperl6-form-perl/debian/watch, skipping:
  search.cpan.org        PAN/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/   Perl6-Form-(.*)\.tar\.gzdebian  uupdate
</pre>
Currently we have two packages with debian/watch that are outdated, libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl and liblocale-subcountry-perl. I haven't played with cvs-buildpackage yet, but I will do this manually right away :)

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Comment By: Joachim Breitner (nomeata)
Date: 2004-04-26 14:27

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Never thought of that. 

Would it be possible to write a script that checks for all Packages with us as the maintainer, extracts the watch file, checks for newer version, and notifies pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.debian.org once a new version is detected?

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Comment By: Gunnar Wolf (gwolf)
Date: 2004-04-26 13:07

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I have tried to keep a debian/watch file for all the Perl modules I maintain, and run uscan regularly - Wouldn't this be enough?
Of course, there are some modules which are not in CPAN or cannot for whatever reason be covered by this method, but this can help with most.

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