Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense 5 & skipping Ucclia

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:52:46 +0100
schreef Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>:

> Perhaps a first step towards fixing this is to get visibility on which
> packages are involved, and what their status is.  How about an
> automatically generated web page that list all packages that differ
> between gNS and Debian?  It could contain version number of the
> package version in Debian, and in gNS, and pointers to the respective
> repositories.  If the version in gNS is lagging behind, the package
> could be marked in red and float to the top, so that people can easily
> find and start to work on fixing that package.

There's a wiki page [1] that gives an overview of modified packages.

> A similar automatically generated page to track all packages would be
> useful, so users can see which packages has been receiving security
> fixes in Debian that haven't yet been merged into gNS.  I'm currently
> a bit hesistant about running gNS because I don't know how well it
> tracks all security fixes in Debian.

I haven't looked at packages.debian.org's setup yet. I suppose such a
comparison feature can be added to that software. gNewSense lags no more
than 24 h for unmodified packages. Modified packages are updated
manually and can take longer. If mostly the differences are
interesting, then maybe packages.gnewsense.org is not the right tool
for that job.

[1] http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation/3/DifferencesWithDebian