[Buildroot] Package informations, online and updated

Alex Bradbury asb at asbradbury.org
Thu Aug 2 14:19:15 UTC 2012


On 31 July 2012 20:37, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> There are probably more metrics to add, even small things like presence
> of ':=' operators. Don't hesitate to share your ideas and patches about
> this.

It would be handy to add the current version for each package. More
ambitiously, a variable defining a watch[1] line could be added to
each Makefile, and used with the Debian scripts (such as uscan) to
automatically detect new upstream versions.

[1]: http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/

Alex


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