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Debian External Health Status (DEHS)

DEHS is a service that periodically checks packages for new upstream version. This service is part of Debian QA (Quality Assurance) project.

Query Packages status

The DEHS data of a package is available with other QA metrics on [http://packages.qa.debian.org] (It's also available on [http://dehs.alioth.debian.org]).

Notify Maintainer

DEHS can send notifications of new upstream version to the 'summary' tag/keyword of the PTS when it finds a new upstream version. ?BR Anyone interested in receiving this kind of notifications please see the [http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-pkg-tracking-system PTS' documentation] on how to subscribe.

DEHS statistics

DEHS provides a [http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/stats.html statistics page] which show the overall "external status" of Debian over the time.

How DEHS works

Debian packages optionally provides the location where upstream sources are released (this is known as debian/watch file). Using an appropriate tool (like uscan from devscripts), it's possible to automatically check the latest upstream version of a program.

Basically, DEHS is doing this almost every day on the whole [:DebianUnstable:Debian/Unstable] (and [:DebianExperimental:Debian/Experimental] ?) archives. (Actually, Dehs checks upstream every four days, AND every time a new version of a given package is introduced in Debian).

DEHS, also has an intelligent mechanism to guess the location of a program. (Todo : Describe how).

More info

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