Hello Ben, >
>I recently donned the mantle of maintaining ‘dput’ and am carefully >making improvements. I am conscious of the special need for backward >compatibility so I am taking care to understand how the Debian developer >community uses it today. ok, I used dput I think version "0.9.6.4ubuntu3" first issue: probably a package outdated on Debian derivatives is bad and makes people switch to dput-ng (at least this happened to me) second issue: this is a warning when uploading on DebOMatic: (I don't see it with dput-ng) This account is restricted by rssh. Allowed commands: scp sftp If you believe this is in error, please contact your system administrator. Warning: The execution of '/usr/bin/ssh' as 'ssh [email protected] chmod 0644 /srv/debomatic-i386/telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2.dsc /srv/debomatic-i386/telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2.debian.tar.xz /srv/debomatic-i386/telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes' returned a nonzero exit code. Error while fixing permissions. third issue: dput ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes (upload performed) "wrong! the package had target suite "unstable", dput-ng refuses to upload in a ppa if the target suite is Debian like fourth issue: dcut seems to work differently dcut ftp-master reschedule -d 15 -f virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.3.36-1+deb8u1_amd64.changes D: dcut 0.2.1 D: trying to get maintainer email from environment D: Uploader from env: Gianfranco Costamagna <[email protected]> D: first argument "ftp-master" treated as host D: loading dput D: calling dput.read_configs D: Parsing Configuration File /etc/dput.cf D: Parsing Configuration File /home/locutus/.dput.cf D: Successfully parsed command "reschedule -d 15 -f virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.3.36-1+deb8u1_amd64.changes" D: calling debsign: ['debsign', '-mGianfranco Costamagna <[email protected]>', '/tmp/dcut.TYTeK6/dcut.Gianfranco_Costamagna__locutusofborg_debian_org_.1483097699.28814.commands'] .commands file has invalid Commands line: reschedule -d 15 -f virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.3.36-1+deb8u1_amd64.changes debsign: .commands file appears to be invalid. see: ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README for valid format Error: debsign failed. dcut ftp-master dm --uid "[email protected]" --allow pixiewps Error: Could not parse commands at "dm" >So I'm now familiar enough, but still fresh enough, that feedback is >particularly valuable. I would like to have an updated package, compatible with dput-ng, that works in Ubuntu and Debian uploads. and it is kept in sync :) >I'd like to take the opportunity of this thread to ask: >What does ‘dput’ do that you really think should not be changed? >What does ‘dput’ do that you wish it would stop doing? work in a -ng compatible way, or with some better documentation about reschedule/dm commands >What do other tools do better than ‘dput’? Do you think that ‘dput’ >should change to do those things the same way? other tools do better checks for sanity before uploading >The same questions can be asked of the ‘dcut’ program from the same >package. and now with dput from unstable: dput debomatic-amd64 ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes Checking signature on .changes gpgme: ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes: error 55: Invalid value (7, 55, u'Invalid value') dput ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes No host ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa found in config and so on... thanks for maintaining it! (maybe I'm just doing it wrong, I had a bad experience dated some years ago, I switched to dput-ng, and now everything works(TM) ) G.
