Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org>
* Package name : dh-curl-sudo-bash Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> and Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> * URL : http://deb.li/U67E * License : BSD 3 clause Programming Lang: POSIX shell, Perl Description : debhelper tools for automated non-packaging The dh-curl-sudo-bash package provides a build-system method for debhelper that automates the non-packaging of programs for which the preferred form of distribution is the sequence "curl http://example.com/setup.sh | sudo bash -" dh-curl-sudo-bash causes debhelper to create a maintainer post-install script that runs the above command on the target machine when the package is installed. Running dpkg-reconfigure is therefore enough to upgrade the package too, thus preventing problems with upgrades. The dh-curl-sudo-bash source package Build-Depends on devscripts so that uscan can be embedded into the postinst to find the correct URL for upgrades. Example usage: debian/rules: %: dh $@ --buildsystem=curl_sudo_bash debian/curl_sudo_bash.watch: http://example.com/setup-(.*\..*).sh For completeness, other shells can also be selected by exporting the variable DH_CURL_SUDO_SHELL from debian/rules: export DH_CURL_SUDO_SHELL=mksh A future extension to dh-curl-sudo-bash is planned that will permit any github repository to be automatically (non-)packaged; the following version will iterate over all github and gitlab repositories packaging everything available. We anticipate that this will make all other Debian Developers redundant as from now on the only thing that is now required to make high quality packages for Debian is to include the relevant URL. This package also obsoletes the previous apt-gentoo package.
