On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:40:00PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > I do not see how these scripts could ever have been useful in > debian/rules. Nevertheless, if you feel I should have sent the scripts > to devscripts, I do not mind doing forwarding the scripts there.
There are various teams using it from some debian/rules target (even though not during build, as my reference to that might have implied). IIRC the GNOME team used to have some corresponding snippet in a CDBS extension and in the OCaml team we have the same (even though we do not actively use it). > I can see how you might have come to this conclusion, but rest assured. > I do trust changelogs as a documentation of who-did-what. It was a > question of us setting with a list of some 50 user-names and wanted to > know who was active. > We noticed that we could find the user-name in the emails to the > commit logs, which solved our problem of mapping (user-)names to > packages. So it was a question of what data I had available. ACK, I see, so this was more related to the "get rid of inactive alioth accounts" than to "let's clean up Uploaders". > Nevertheless, it sounds like there is little interest in the mailing > list scanner, so I will put that away for now. Oh no, it is interesting, I just tried to KISS :-) > I am using dpkg's perl modules for parsing the changelog, so it is > already pretty straight forward. The reason why it only checks the > signature line is because it is a prototype. > It already allows you to specify a regex instead of an email provided > you invoke grep-dctrl yourself. However, it still only checks the > signature line. I know how to fix it and can do it when I get about 30 > minutes to do a bit of perl. In case you need a reference, the "minechangelogs" script (by Enrico Zini) that we use in the NM process already does something like that. I've never looked at the code, but you can find it here: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/nm/trunk/nm-templates/minechangelogs Hope this helps, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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