Package: dctrl-tools,devscripts
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Hello,
for my line of work (heh) I regularly have to run grep-dctrl against the
Packages/Sources files for a combination of arches and suites. Since
I've always found specifying the paths to those files a pain, I've been
a long-time user of a small wrapper script [1] that concisely takes
SUITE(S):COMPONENT(S):ARCH(ES) as its first argument, and pipes the
appropriate files to grep-dctrl.
That script works nice on machines with a local mirror. At home, where I
don't have one, I've gone with a symlink farm in /org pointing to files
in /var/lib/apt/lists. I've wanted to extend the script to use directly
apt's files if a mirror is not available, but I never got around to it
(it's a bash script).
Additionally, I've been told by some people they don't think a wrapper
script is an appropriate solution, and they thought putting support for
this in grep-dctrl directly would be better.
Personally, I don't care where it is. I just want a Debian idiom to
specify what to grep-dctrl against, one that works in every machine,
using a local mirror if available, resorting to apt's files if not.
So, I'd like to hear from the dctrl-tools maintainers if they think
such an idiom has a place in grep-dctrl itself, or they think it'd
be better maintained in devscripts. A hypothetical use would be:
% grep-dctrl -M testing:main,contrib:ALL -FDepends libtdb1
I'd also like to hear from the devscripts maintainers if they think a
wrapper for this purpose would be allowed in devscripts and
(particularly) if any of them would be up to write it, since sadly I
would not be able to provide an implementation in Perl (only in Python).
Thanks in advance,
[1]:
http://git.debian.org/?p=tools-release/release.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/grep-archive;hb=HEAD
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