Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.52 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debcheckout
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi zack, while setting up the pkg-haskell group, we had some discussions on the VCS layout. One option, which I find appealing, is to only store the contents of the debian/ directory in the VCS. This would be most useful if there is some support for it in debcheckout. In human pseudo code, I could imagine debcheckout following these steps: * debcheckout, after getting the repository, detects this layout (absense of a debian/ directory, presence of control and changelog files in the top directory) * If detected, it gets an upstream tarball. Possible locations are: - current working directory, if named as expected (....orig.tar.gz) - the debian archive - whatever is referenced in ./watch * It extracts the tarball * It moves the repository checkout to debian/ inside the checked-out sources. What do you think? Does it make sense? Would you accept a patch implementing that? Thanks, Joachim - -- Package-specific info: - --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- - --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3 Debian package development tools ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.10.0-23 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.10.2 Delayed job execution and batch pr ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent ii bzr 1.16.1-1 easy to use distributed version co ii curl 7.19.5-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System ii dctrl-tools 2.13.1 Command-line tools to process Debi ii debian-keyring 2009.05.28 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D pn debian-maintainers <none> (no description available) ii dput 0.9.4 Debian package upload tool ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen ii fakeroot 1.12.4 Gives a fake root environment ii galeon [www-browse 2.0.7-1 GNOME web browser for advanced use ii git-core 1:1.6.3.3-2 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii iceweasel [www-bro 3.0.11-1 lightweight web browser based on M ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.12-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1+b1 Support for https protocol in LWP ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control- ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.710.08-2 Client and server side SOAP implem ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii libwww-perl 5.828-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.07-1 fast, lightweight YAML loader and ii lintian 2.2.12 Debian package checker ii lsb-release 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base version report ii lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7pre6-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager ii mercurial 1.2.1-3 scalable distributed version contr ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-6 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii patchutils 0.3.1-2 Utilities to work with patches ii strace 4.5.18-1 A system call tracer ii subversion 1.5.6dfsg-1 Advanced version control system ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii wdiff 0.5-18 Compares two files word by word ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available) pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available) pn gnuplot <none> (no description available) pn libfile-desktopentry-perl <none> (no description available) ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.01-2 SSL support for Net::SMTP pn mutt <none> (no description available) pn svn-buildpackage <none> (no description available) - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpPvpEACgkQ9ijrk0dDIGwopQCfSuz3ZUgFCE/D47mcJPz48q8M RJEAoJTZSo6CORNffVKCg3zJr194rVR4 =Rx5B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
