Hi Otto, On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 02:13:29PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > > > > * Package name : gwh > > > Version : 0.6.14 > > > Upstream Contact: Roland Mas > > > * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/lolando/gwh > > > * License : GPL-3+ > > > Programming Lang: bash > > > Description : git-buildpackage workflow helper > > > > > > This is a wrapper script around git-buildpackage > > I know git-buildpackage has a lot of options and historically it has > been a little bit hard for packagers to figure out which commands > exactly to use with git-buildpackage to achieve the normal day-to-day > packaging tasks, but the man pages and the manual at > https://gbp.sigxcpu.org/manual/ is nowadays much improved. > > Are you sure that creating a new abstraction layer on top of > git-buildpackage is useful? > > You basically just have one bash script with git-buildpackage aliases > in a fancy way. Could you just contribute to upstream git-buildpackage > to make it easier, or have your script included at > https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage/-/tree/master/examples > instead of creating a whole new Debian package?
Roland and I chatted about this off list and examples/ wouldn't make it prominent enough and as it encodes a very specific work flow it wouldn't be suitable to install with gbp by default either so a separate package looks like the best way forward. Cheers, -- Guido > _______________________________________________ > git-buildpackage mailing list > git-buildpack...@lists.sigxcpu.org > http://lists.sigxcpu.org/mailman/listinfo/git-buildpackage >
