A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:26:41AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote:
>   4) Perform automated sanity checks against the bin package.
>   5) Push the new hint, bin, and src packages into the live repository.

I think these two features, especially the sanity checks, make it
worth the small changes. Of course, I'm a minority package
holder.  I assume some with the many packages (Chris, Corinna)
would be outside this process anyway, though.

I do forsee regular text-wrapping issues with the 80-chars
problem.

> I have not decided on an optimal machine-readable format for announcing
> updates. 

How about MARC (<http://www.loc.gov/marc/faq.html#definition>)?
Sorry, the MAchine-Readable got me, I don't really think we need
to be using library standards developed in the 1960s. :)