Dmitry MarakasovApr 30

So I've finally polished and published https://crates.io/crates/libversion crate, a pure #rust implementation of version comparison algorithm #Repology depends on.

You may or may not be a fan of rewriting anything in rust, but when someone submits you rust bindings of your own C library, it's absolutely 100% the valid case.

In fact though, it was the first thing I've rewritten in rust when I started learning it 2 years ago, though it took more time to gain enough XP to implement and publish it cleanly.

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Show threadPeter CzanikMar 4

@opensuse I also updated the @fedora #Rawhide package, and according to the syslog-ng page on #repology, it's already there: https://repology.org/project/syslog-ng/versions

However, Rawhide still had #syslog_ng 4.10.2, when I checked a few minutes ago...

syslog-ng package versions - Repology

List of package versions for project syslog-ng in all repositories

BegasusDec 2, 2025

New at haikuports, lasermagic 0.1.36, after the first recipe draft by @pulkomandy for this and some pointers found at #repology I was able to complete the package and make it available as an extention for Inkscape.

https://lasermagic.ci-yow.com/

#HaikuOS #haikuports #lasermagic #repology #Inkscape

Dmitry MarakasovMay 16, 2025
#repology service may be intermittent due to DDoS attack on the hoster. Status and plans: https://github.com/repology/repology-rs/issues/278
Repology may be unavailable, hosting under DoS · Issue #278 · repology/repology-rs

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Dmitry MarakasovApr 27, 2025
#repology's linkchecker rewritten in rust and now back live (wasn't working since Aug 2024). Keep an eye for new broken upstream and download URLs in your repositories.
Alexandre FrankeNov 24, 2024
Does #repology have a way to filter a page like https://repology.org/project/kwallet/versions to show only the currently supported distributions? I.e. hide Fedora before 39 and so on?
kwallet package versions - Repology

List of package versions for project kwallet in all repositories

Show threadDmitry MarakasovOct 3, 2024

On the downside, I'll have to maintain ruleset (merging related projects, splitting unrelated ones, and blacklisting incorrect versions) in whole another ecosystem, and one which lacks good package naming (names are long unicode strings which need normalization) and versioning (`v` prefix and random suffixes all over the place) traditions.

So for now I'm hesitant about making Android repos first class citizens in #repology.

Dmitry MarakasovOct 3, 2024

#Repology only has marginal support for F-Droid, only seeing a few handpicked packages for software which is also available in Linux:

https://repology.org/projects/?inrepo=fdroid

I've recently had a few PRs which improve F-Droid support and add #IzzyOnDroid, allowing full-fledged version comparison within Android ecosystem.

I wonder if any #fdroid maintainers or @IzzyOnDroid would be interested in that.

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Show threadzirias (on snac)Oct 2, 2024
Ah, nice. I just deprecated #qXmoji, now that #Xmoji has all the "important" features (and more). Didn't even know someone packaged it for AUR.

In general, I've seen very mixed quality in AUR, unfortunately. If #Xmoji appears there, I should notice (thanks to #repology) and review what was done 😁
jan Anja(); // moved to @[email protected]Sep 12, 2024

When I don't know what library to use in my #Python project, I search my distro's repos first and then check how many distros also packaged it (using #Repology).

If a library is packaged, then some of the following things are automatically true:

  • This library is used by other projects.
  • This library is maintained.
  • This library has a working test suite.

And if I have to use an unpackaged library, that means each distro needs to package its dependency graph, including test dependencies. Maintainers will think twice before doing this.

#Dependencies #SoftwareDevelopment