Comparing versions of packages across distributions

[Santiago M. Mola]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Is the source for the script you use to generate these lists available
> anywhere? I wonder if it would be extensible for this; seems a shame to
> reinvent what you've got already.
>

A fellow Gentoo developer is developing www.doapspace.org. It's a
database of DOAP registers which contains metadata for upstream
projects. AFAIK, it supports any project with an entry in SourceForge,
Freshmeat and PyPI atm, plus any project which maintains a DOAP feed.

He's also working on a tool which maps doapspace entries to Gentoo
packages, so we can get info about new versions for our packages,
locations of bug trackers, homepages, etc.

I think it may be a good point of start for developing tools which
maps those registers to other distro's packages, so you can get the
stats you want. Although, there's no one who is doing such work.

Regards,
-- 
Santiago M. Mola
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