On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:58:53AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 18:23, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:20:46PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 18:15, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > >> > Maybe a helper that the maintainer could ask the bug reporter to run. I > > >> > sometimes as them to run reportbug --template $somepackage, that could > > >> > be something similar. > > >> > > >> mh, that would be nice! but do you think that's something up to > > >> reportbug to provide, or more fittingly something dpkg can ship? > > > > > > I really don't have a preference. > > > > Ok, so I clone this bug to ask dpkg maintainer to provide a tool to > > parse dpkg.log* files. for example it would be cool to have an option > > to have the last upgrade of a package like > > > > <date> <previous version> <upgrade version> > > > > and probably a list of all the "relevant" events of a given package > > (f.e., install, remove, reinstall, purge, etc etc). Mike something I'm > > missing here? > > I don't think we're going to ship anything like this in the near future. > > But Enrico Zini was interested in adding this information in the > apt-xapian-index database. We have added a feature in the master branch so > that he can get the status information in real time. > > Maybe you could reuse the information stored there once it's implemented? > Ccing Enrico so that he can comment too.
Except if we make all users have apt-xapian-index installed, this is not going to be helpful to maintainers. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
