On 21/08/07 at 22:48 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:52:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Package: devscripts > > Version: 2.10.7 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to propose a new script for devscripts. It's a rewrite of what > > used to be known as 'MultiDistroTools' (or mdt). Its use is to create > > 'APT trees' for several distributions, making it easy to query the > > status of packages in Ubuntu without using chroots, for example. > > Looks very interesting, thanks! My major concern is that the rest of > devscripts is written in either Perl or Bash, and I don't really want > to burden it with myriad further language dependencies. I guess it > should be pretty easy to translate this into Perl?
Well, with my current perl knowledge, It will probably take me a lot of time to rewrite it in perl. My favorite solution would be to put the script in the package, without adding ruby as dependency (but putting ruby inside brackets in debian/control as done for the other scripts). The other solutions are to wait for someone else to rewrite the script in perl (which will probably take time), or to package the script in a seperate package (which is bad because of package proliferation for a 300-lines script)... -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
