Hi folks, As git-ubuntu sees increasing use, including for such things as requests for sponsorship of Debian merges, I've had an itch to scratch regarding the complexity of passing correct flags to dpkg-buildpackage, so I spent some time prototyping a git-ubuntu wrapper for it.
bzr-builddeb hasn't been useful for general work on Ubuntu packages for quite a while, but the behavior of this wrapper is inspired by it. Hopefully some of you will find using this tool pleasantly familiar! The intent is that this will eventually become a git-ubuntu subcommand, though there are some namespace questions to sort out first - the obvious name for such a command IMHO would be 'git-ubuntu build' but that already exists and does other things. From initial feedback, I know a lot of developers are using sbuild to build their source packages rather than invoking dpkg-buildpackage directly. I would like to provide a corresponding wrapper for sbuild as a next step - I would suggest this should eventually be called 'git-ubuntu sbuild'. Anyway, I've been using this script in anger for a week, so I'd like to welcome other folks to give it a try now as well. To get started: git clone lp:git-ubuntu cd git-ubuntu sudo mk-build-deps -i -r . (or: sudo apt build-dep .) export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/sandbox then cd to a git-ubuntu repo, and: gu-build Note that this calls the equivalent of `git-ubuntu prepare-upload args` under the hood, so will push to a launchpad branch under your user. Why this is useful: - the syntax 'dpkg-buildpackage $(git-ubuntu prepare-upload args)' is onerous and repetitive - but we want to encourage inclusion of these headers in .changes files, as this lets us automate closure of git-ubuntu MPs - there are certain options that can be inferred as correct for any git-ubuntu repo (-i -I) - orig.tar.xz should be reconstituted or downloaded when needed, without extra commands (we have pristine-tar branches in git-ubuntu which often save having to do a duplicate download; having to clone a git repository *and* apt source the package is meh) - getting the correct options to dpkg-buildpackage by hand for a package merge is tedious; this automates -v and -sa arguments. Enjoy, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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