Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.50 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/uscan
The context is the "packaging multiple-egg" part of my blog post available at [1]. The scenario is quite common: in the occasions where you do have source packages depending on multiple upstream tarballs, you have to keep track of them. Now that we have get-orig-source in policy, I believe it makes sense to have it rely on uscan and then do the extra needed work of tarball merging. The part on which uscan can improve its support is automation of the download of multiple tarballs. My current hack^Wsolution is to rely on several debian/*.watch files and invoke it from a Makefile snippet [2]. What about supporting this out of the box in uscan? I see two possible ways of doing that: - make uscan understand debian/*.watch files, in the style of devscripts - extend the debian/watch format to support multiple declarations Given that debian/watch is already based on single logical lines (split using continuations), the latter solution seems cleaner to me. What problems, if any, inhibit adding such support? I'm sure that not all features currently provided by uscan can be applied on all downloaded tarballs, but I'm confident most can be. Cheers. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2009/05/kick-starting_turbogears_2_packaging/ [2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-modules/packages/python-repoze.who-plugins/trunk/debian/get-orig-source.mk -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBUILD_ROOTCMD=fakeroot DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.15.2 Debian package development tools ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.10.0-22 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 1.15~rc1-1 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 2.14 Command-line tools to process Debi ii debian-keyring 2009.05.28 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D ii debian-maintainers 1.59 GPG keys of Debian maintainers ii dput 0.9.4 Debian package upload tool ii epiphany-webkit [w 2.27.2-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - WebK ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen ii fakeroot 1.12.2 Gives a fake root environment ii galeon [www-browse 2.0.7-1 GNOME web browser for advanced use ii git-core 1:1.6.3.1-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii iceweasel [www-bro 3.0.9-1 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 5.826-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.07-1 fast, lightweight YAML loader and ii lintian 2.2.10 Debian package checker ii lsb-release 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base version report ii lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7pre4-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-5+b1 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+b1 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) ii gnuplot 4.2.5-2 A command-line driven interactive ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-2 Perl module to handle freedesktop pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available) ii mutt 1.5.19-3 text-based mailreader supporting M ii svn-buildpackage 0.6.25 helper programs to maintain Debian -- no debconf information -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
