# PTS now sports DEHS information

During the last week I've started again doing some
[PTS](http://packages.qa.debian.org) hacking. Mostly it has been bug triaging
and squashing ... I'll probably blog a summary of that sooner or later. In the
meantime however an interesting mini-announcement is due: the PTS is now
integrated with [DEHS](http://dehs.alioth.debian.org) to help maintainers in
knowing where a newer upstream version of their packages is available.

The integration is twofold:

1. if you are subscribed (via the PTS mail interface) to the "summary" keyword
   for a given package you will be notified of the availability of newer
   upstream versions. Kudos to Raphael Geissert for the work on the DEHS side of
   this

2. in the PTS page related to a given source package you can now see a TODO item
   about the need to package a newer upstream version and a problem item if the
   last uscan attempt on your package failed

There is an entry about that in the forthcoming
[DeveloperNews](http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews), it will eventually flow
to [d-d-a](http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce).

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