Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2011, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 23:51 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011,

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 23:51 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-24 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011,

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-14 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 12/03/2011 12:51, Benjamin Drung wrote: pull-debian-source (?) apt-get source $src ? Not really, because for apt-get source $src you need an entry in your sources.list. With pull-debian-source $src experimental you get the experimental package, with pull-debian-source $src lenny you get

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-12 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 00:18 +0100 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:15:22PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: James Vega seems to be the most active devscripts maintainer these days, and he does this (as far as I know) in his spare time. If he does not want to have

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-12 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 14:34 -0500 schrieb James Vega: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Also, considering we are talking about Python and not, say, my beloved OCaml, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that among active Debian developers we

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-12 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 18:32 +0100 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: On 08/03/2011 23:01, Benjamin Drung wrote: check-symbols I always hated programs that do sudo (and even more those doing it *twice*). And, isn't just unpacking the .deb and checking for .so there enough? You could have

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: get-build-deps Is this an alias for apt-get build-dep $1? No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard interface - install

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:32:27 -0800 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: FWIW, mk-build-deps is close, but not exactly what I'm looking for personally. I really want a command that, without needing to specify any extra options, does 'mk-build-deps -i -r debian/control', because I think

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 09:58 + schrieb Neil Williams: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: get-build-deps Is this an alias for apt-get build-dep $1? No, it's a tool

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 11/03/2011 11:11, Joachim Breitner wrote: There is also this in haskell-debian-utils, although not very widely advocated: * apt-get-build-depends: Tool which will parse the Build-Depends{-Indep} lines from debian/control and apt-get install the required packages see

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: udt-* for all applicable *, where udt stands for ubuntu-dev-tools. [...] udt-mk-sbuild This command creates a schroot with a named debian or ubuntu release, and adds a useful section to schroot.conf. Adding udt- does not make it any less

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Benjamin Drung writes (Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts): Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 22:28 + schrieb Ian Jackson: udt-* for all applicable *, where udt stands for ubuntu-dev-tools. Why? These scripts are not ubuntu specific. To distinguish them from any other scripts

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts would depend on python then. Most of the scripts are short. Rewriting would be fairly simple, and may be

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts would depend on python then. Most of the

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:28 -0500, James Vega wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them included in devscripts is too much work without benefit.

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2011-03-10 at 11:28 -0500, James Vega wrote: I also think that going off and writing scripts in Python when one knows that devscripts is a Perl and shell project is the wrong way to try to contribute. One generally tries to work with a project, not write a lot of code in a language the

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 08/03/2011 23:01, Benjamin Drung wrote: check-symbols I always hated programs that do sudo (and even more those doing it *twice*). And, isn't just unpacking the .deb and checking for .so there enough? You could have undefined symbols… but that may not be an issue most of the time, IMO.

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:46:01PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I suspect most people who want to add something to devscripts don't start off by deciding that they want to do that. Instead they have an itch they want to scratch, they write something quick to get fix that, and then realize that

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: get-build-deps Is this an alias for apt-get build-dep $1? No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard interface - install the build-dependencies for the package in my current directory. This may not be the

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-03-10 18:48 +0100]: The argument of maintenance burden is in general a valid one, but IME maintenance burden in devscripts is more limited by the amount of people who are interested in maintaining a specific (dev)script than by the needed language knowledge. ... To

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Also, considering we are talking about Python and not, say, my beloved OCaml, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that among active Debian developers we have nowadays more Python knowledge than Perl knowledge (but I'm

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-10, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: One way to have both, all members of the devscripts team keep their current vim in maintaining it, and not wasting the potential developer resources of these two DDs, could be the following: Package: devscripts Maintainer: Devscripts

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: get-build-deps Is this an alias for apt-get build-dep $1? No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard interface - install the build-dependencies for the package in my current directory. Sounds similar to

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi James (2011.03.10_21:34:51_+0200) I completely agree that rewriting the tools isn't a useful effort. I was more concerned that there had been significant development done on scripts that were intended to be proposed to devscripts and yet were intentionally being written in a language that

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:48:21 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: To conclude with an obvious argument, rewriting useful tools which are known to work and which are currently maintained by a derived distro, when they are already written in a popular language, doesn't seem to be the smartest thing

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:50:57PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: get-build-deps Is this an alias for apt-get build-dep $1? No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard interface - install the

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 03/10/2011 10:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:50:57PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: get-build-deps Is this an alias for apt-get build-dep $1? No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:15:22PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: James Vega seems to be the most active devscripts maintainer these days, and he does this (as far as I know) in his spare time. If he does not want to have python scripts in it, I see no justification to force him to do so. I also

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:34:51PM -0500, James Vega wrote: I completely agree that rewriting the tools isn't a useful effort. I was more concerned that there had been significant development done on scripts that were intended to be proposed to devscripts and yet were intentionally being

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-03-11 00:18 +0100]: First of all, I'm not sure anymore that I see the point of discussing the *language issue* in a circle larger than the devscripts maintainers. ... The language issue should probably be a decision within the devscripts team, together with the

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Benjamin Drung writes (new scripts and patches for devscripts): 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. These scripts are: add-patch check-symbols cowbuilder-dist debian-distro-info distro

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 16:42 + schrieb Ian Jackson: Benjamin Drung writes (new scripts and patches for devscripts): 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. These scripts

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Should these script moved from ubuntu-dev-tools into devscripts? Most of the script are

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Benjamin Drung writes (Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts): Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 16:42 + schrieb Ian Jackson: add-patch check-symbols cowbuilder-dist debian-distro-info distro-info edit-patch get-build-deps merge-changelog mk-sbuild pbuilder-dist

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Should these script moved from

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 22:28 + schrieb Ian Jackson: Benjamin Drung writes (Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts): Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 16:42 + schrieb Ian Jackson: add-patch check-symbols cowbuilder-dist debian-distro-info distro-info edit

new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, I have two topics I like to discuss: 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. These scripts are: add-patch check-symbols cowbuilder-dist debian-distro-info distro-info edit-patch

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. These scripts are: mk-sbuild Speaking just for this script, it's a user-friendly

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. These scripts are: