euscan: a tool to check if ebuilds are outdated

[Iksaif]

Hi,

I recently started working on a small gentoo utility named "euscan" (for Ebuild Upstream Scan)
For those who don't know debian's uscan, it allows to scan upstream for new versions. It's used by packages.qa.debian.org (example: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/php-net-ipv4.html ).

Currently, it uses two heuristics to find new versions, both based on SRC_URI and PV:
- Directory scanning: scan directories to find files with newer version
- Brute Force: generate new possible versions, and try to download files

Note that it also works when only a part of the version is available
in the url.

The code is available (both the utility and the web interface) at http://git.iksaif.net/?p=euscan.git;a=summary
And the web interface is hosted at http://euscan.iksaif.net/

Small TODO:
- Package euscan utility as 'app-portage/euscan' (someone could do that ?)
- Add charts (using google charts ?)
- Add a way to subscribe to weekly/monthly repport for maintainers/herds
- Add better heuristics to detect false positives
- Any idea ?

Example:

[nixnut]

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