Am Freitag, den 17.12.2010, 15:45 -0800 schrieb Kees Cook: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:25:01PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > I am going to rewrite update-maintainer (it's in the ubuntu-dev-tools > > package) to use python-debian. Looking at the current version, I am not > > sure what this tool should exactly do. > > This is what the security team uses: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/ubuntu-security-tools/trunk/annotate/head%3A/build-tools/u-maint > > > 1) Check if "ubuntu" is in the Debian version. Go on to the next step if > > yes, otherwise say "Not an Ubuntu package - Nothing to do." and exit. > > I took the option of examining the release name instead (line 23), since > there are packages that are ubuntu-native and don't carry "ubuntu" in the > version.
I adopted the release name check and expanded it to detect unstable*, testing*, and stable*. > > 2) Check if the Maintainer email address has a "@ubuntu.com" or > > "@lists.ubuntu.com". Go on to the next step if no, otherwise say > > "Already maintained by Ubuntu" and exit. > > This seems to catch most stuff: @([^\.]+\.)*(launchpad.net|ubuntu.com) > (lines 26 through 31) I modified the check to allow everything that ends with ubuntu.com. Do we really want to allow @*.launchpad.net? > > 3) Move the maintainer from the "Maintainer" to > > "XSBC-Original-Maintainer" field and set "Ubuntu Developers > > <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>" as new Maintainer. > > This depends on the component target, so you need to look that up first > (lines 33 through 42). Not any more (as discussed earlier). > > Did I oversee something? Is there a use case that is not covered? Any > > other comments? If I receive no comments, I will JFDI [1] and release it > > with the next upload of ubuntu-dev-tools. > > It needs to detect and update control.in files too (lines 18 through 21). Yes, it does tries control.in in the control. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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