On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:47 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> On 4 March 2010 05:33, Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > @all
> > "upstream release tracker"  (brought up by ikelos on g-core recently)
> > potential resources:
> > - oswatershed
> >  - http://oswatershed.org/
> >  - http://github.com/tannewt/open-source-watershed
> > - Debian watch files
> >  - http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS
> >  - http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uscan&sektion=1
> 
> There's bumpchecker too:
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gentoo-bumpchecker.git;a=summary

FWIW I have a simple python script to handle that for XEmacs packages,
and we have some code specific to rubygems as well:
http://moving-innovations.com/~graaff/outdated-gems/ (output, not code).

Kind regards,

Hans