Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: plugwash <plugw...@p10link.net>
* Package name : autoforwardportergit Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Peter Michael Green <plugw...@debian.org> * URL : http://github.com/plugwash/autoforwardportergit/ * License : (MIT) Programming Lang: (Python3 and bash) Description : Tool for automatically merging local changes with new distro packages. Often there is a need to maintain downstream changes to a package with a new version from the upstream distro. Doing this manually is not difficult but it gets to be a PITA for more than a handful of packages. autoforwardportergit and the related tool dscdirtogit (which I intend to package as part of the same source) are built to automate this process. reprepro is used to create a local repo with both upstream and downstream versions of the packages. dscdirtogit takes existing dscs (both upstream and downstream) and uses dgit to import them into a git repo for each package. It uses the changelogs to determine the shape of the history. The actual autoforwardporter looks at package lists to determine when a merge is needed. The initial merge is performed with git and then a series of "fixers" fixup the changelog and other common conflicts. If the conflicts are fixed successfully dgit will be used to build a source package and then sbuild will be used to build the package. If the conflicts are not fixed successfully the code complete with conflict markers will be committed to a "working" branch so that a human can pick up where the automation left off. The code currently works fine but before packaging I will need to move raspbian-specific assumptions into a configuration file and move to a fhs-compliant file layout. I hope to work on this while at Debconf.
