Hello, As some of you may know, the EDOS project (http://www.edos-project.org/), funded by the European Community, is developing algorithms and tools to enhance the infrastructure of free and open source software.
We are collecting Debian metadata daily and running installability checks. For instance, today, 1.3% of the packages in unstable/i386 are broken. The worst in the past 3 months has been on September 10th and 11th with 7.8% and 7.7% of packages broken in unstable. These were particularly bad days for upgrading your packages. This data can be browsed online at : http://debian.edos-project.org/anla/ Therefore it seems that there are bad and betters days for upgrading your system. Having buggy packages is one thing, getting yourself stuck in an uninstallable mess of packages is another. Hence we recommend checking the Debian "weather" before upgrading ! To do this, you have two solutions : a) Web-based: Point your browser to http://debian.edos-project.org/anla/ For extra coolness, you can include live installability icons in your page with the following HTML code : An example can be seen at http://gallium.inria.fr/~durak/ b) Install our KDE panel applet ``kroll'' (written by Jaap Boender) or our Gnome applet ``weather'' (written by Fabio Mancinelli). Debian packages for i386 are available at: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31055 You can also checkout their sources using SVN with svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/edos These applets will display, in your taskbar, a weather icon and a percentage describing the installability by loading that information from our servers. c) Write your own applet that parses the XML output available at http://brion.inria.fr/anla/weather?bundle=S&architecture=i386 http://brion.inria.fr/anla/weather?bundle=T&architecture=i386 http://brion.inria.fr/anla/weather?bundle=U&architecture=i386 where S,T and U stand for stable, testing and unstable, respecitively. All kinds of feedback, KDE/Gnome coding and packaging help are very welcome. Credits go to the WP2 team of the EDOS project, more specifically to Jaap Boender, Fabio Mancinelli, Jérôme Vouillon and myself. -- Berke Durak, for the WP2 team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
