[tor-bugs] #20643 [Internal Services/Service - deb.tpo]: make and maintain a registry of what debs are on deb.tp.o and why

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#20643: make and maintain a registry of what debs are on deb.tp.o and why
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 Reporter:  arma                                 |          Owner:  hiro
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
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 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Service - deb.tpo  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Comment (by irl):

 I started having a go at this before I knew there was a ticket. Some ideas
 that I've had regarding this:

  * I like the view provided by DDPO (e.g.
 https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=irl)
  * I'd like to be able to compare to the versions in the corresponding
 Debian/Ubuntu suites
  * I'd like to see the results of uscan to see when the package needs
 updating to a new upstream (can be the results of the Debian package's
 uscan provided by Debian)
  * The packages on deb.tpo are listed nicely in the Sources.gz file for
 each suite, you can read these files with deb822 (in python-debian on
 Debian systems)
  * A single HTML table is really all that's required here
  * We could have a policy of having an extra Maintainer line in the
 control files that ends up in the Sources.gz to keep track of who is the
 maintainer for each package, depending on what the archive software
 supports (I think Ubuntu does this to differentiate the Ubuntu maintainer
 from the Debian maintainer)

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