Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2011, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 23:51 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 23:51 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Be

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-24 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 +

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: > > >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Ben

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-14 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 12/03/2011 12:51, Benjamin Drung wrote: pull-debian-source (?) apt-get source $src ? Not really, because for "apt-get source $src" you need an entry in your sources.list. With "pull-debian-source $src experimental" you get the experimental package, with "pull-debian-source $src lenny" you

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-12 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 18:32 +0100 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > On 08/03/2011 23:01, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > check-symbols > > I always hated programs that do "sudo" (and even more those doing it > *twice*). And, isn't just unpacking the .deb and checking for ".so" > there enough? You cou

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-12 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 14:34 -0500 schrieb James Vega: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Also, considering we are talking about Python and not, say, my beloved > > OCaml, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that among active Debian > > developers we have now

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-12 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 00:18 +0100 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:15:22PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > > James Vega seems to be the most active devscripts maintainer these days, > > and he does this (as far as I know) in his spare time. If he does not > > want to have

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 11/03/2011 11:11, Joachim Breitner wrote: There is also this in haskell-debian-utils, although not very widely advocated: * apt-get-build-depends: Tool which will parse the Build-Depends{-Indep} lines from debian/control and apt-get install the required packages see http://packag

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 09:58 + schrieb Neil Williams: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > >get-build-deps > > > > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > > > > No, it's a to

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:32:27 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > FWIW, mk-build-deps is close, but not exactly what I'm looking for > personally. I really want a command that, without needing to specify any > extra options, does 'mk-build-deps -i -r debian/control', because I think > this is the commo

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > >get-build-deps > > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > > No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard > interface - "install the bui

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-03-11 00:18 +0100]: > First of all, I'm not sure anymore that I see the point of discussing > the *language issue* in a circle larger than the devscripts > maintainers. ... The language issue should probably be a decision > within the devscripts team, together with the sc

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:34:51PM -0500, James Vega wrote: > I completely agree that rewriting the tools isn't a useful effort. I > was more concerned that there had been significant development done on > scripts that were intended to be proposed to devscripts and yet were > intentionally being w

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:15:22PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > James Vega seems to be the most active devscripts maintainer these days, > and he does this (as far as I know) in his spare time. If he does not > want to have python scripts in it, I see no justification to force him > to do so. I al

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 03/10/2011 10:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:50:57PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > get-build-deps Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? >>> No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:50:57PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > >get-build-deps > > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > > No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard > > interface - "install th

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:48:21 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > To conclude with an obvious argument, rewriting useful tools which are > known to work and which are currently maintained by a derived distro, > when they are already written in a popular language, doesn't seem to be > the smartest th

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi James (2011.03.10_21:34:51_+0200) > I completely agree that rewriting the tools isn't a useful effort. I > was more concerned that there had been significant development done on > scripts that were intended to be proposed to devscripts and yet were > intentionally being written in a language th

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >get-build-deps > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard > interface - "install the build-dependencies for the package in my current > directory". Sounds si

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-10, Carsten Hey wrote: > One way to have both, all members of the devscripts team keep their > current vim in maintaining it, and not wasting the potential developer > resources of these two DDs, could be the following: > > Package: devscripts > Maintainer: Devscripts Devel Team >

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Also, considering we are talking about Python and not, say, my beloved > OCaml, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that among active Debian > developers we have nowadays more Python knowledge than Perl knowledge > (but I'm already regr

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-03-10 18:48 +0100]: > The argument of maintenance burden is in general a valid one, but IME > maintenance burden in devscripts is more limited by the amount of > people who are interested in maintaining a specific (dev)script than > by the needed language knowledge. ... >

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > >get-build-deps > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard interface - "install the build-dependencies for the package in my current directory". This may not b

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:46:01PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I suspect most people who want to add something to devscripts don't > start off by deciding that they want to do that. Instead they have an > itch they want to scratch, they write something quick to get fix that, > and then realize t

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 08/03/2011 23:01, Benjamin Drung wrote: check-symbols I always hated programs that do "sudo" (and even more those doing it *twice*). And, isn't just unpacking the .deb and checking for ".so" there enough? You could have undefined symbols… but that may not be an issue most of the time, IMO.

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2011-03-10 at 11:28 -0500, James Vega wrote: > I also think that going off and writing scripts in Python when one knows > that devscripts is a Perl and shell project is the wrong way to try to > contribute. One generally tries to work with a project, not write a lot > of code in a language

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:28 -0500, James Vega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>> Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them > >>> included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. dev

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them >>> included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts >>> would depend on python then. >> >> Most of the sc

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them >> included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts >> would depend on python then. > > Most of the scripts are short. Rewriting would be fairly simple, and > may

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Benjamin Drung writes ("Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts"): > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 22:28 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > > udt-* for all applicable *, where "udt" stands for "ubuntu-dev-tools". > > Why? These scripts are not ubuntu

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Ian Jackson writes: > udt-* for all applicable *, where "udt" stands for "ubuntu-dev-tools". > [...] > udt-mk-sbuild This command creates a schroot with a named debian or ubuntu release, and adds a useful section to schroot.conf. Adding "udt-" does not make it any less misnamed. :) -- Stig

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 22:28 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > Benjamin Drung writes ("Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts"): > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 16:42 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > > > > add-patch > > > > check-symbols > &g

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 12:26 -0500 schrieb James Vega: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: > >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > >> > Should these script moved from ubuntu-d

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Benjamin Drung writes ("Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts"): > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 16:42 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > > > add-patch > > > check-symbols > > > cowbuilder-dist > > > debian-distro-info > > > distro-info &

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> > Should these script moved from ubuntu-dev-tools into devscripts? >> > >> > Most of the script are written in

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 16:42 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > Benjamin Drung writes ("new scripts and patches for devscripts"): > > 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful > > only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for pac

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Benjamin Drung writes ("new scripts and patches for devscripts"): > 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful > only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. > These scripts are: > > add-patch > check-symbols >

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 + schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful > > only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. > > These scripts are:

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful > only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. > These scripts are: > > mk-sbuild Speaking just for this script, it's a "user-friendly"

new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, I have two topics I like to discuss: 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. These scripts are: add-patch check-symbols cowbuilder-dist debian-distro-info distro-info edit-patch get-build-dep