Public bug reported: This is a followup to #1153009, which synced config-package-dev 5.0 to raring. (This bug report is mostly adapted from that one.)
config-package-dev is a set of extension modules for CDBS and Debhelper (including a dh7 sequencer module) to allow site sysadmins to create Debian packages for system configuration. It's extensively used by the MIT Debathena project, where it originated, and used by a handful of other sites. I released config-package-dev 5.0 a few days ago (it's Debian-native), which includes the Debhelper and dh7 support, and it was just synced to raring. The previous versions of config-package-dev only support CDBS. The CDBS module in config-package-dev 5.0 remains completely API- compatible with 4.x, and furthermore, there are no packages in the archive that build-depend on config-package-dev (since it's primarily intended for use at a specific site to configure their OS, not by an upstream distribution), so the regression potential is basically nonexistent. I've tested the new version on everything in Debathena, to be confident. Backporting config-package-dev would allow us to encourage its use by folks learning Debian packaging today, since dh7 is gaining popularity over CDBS. I gave a lightning talk at UDS-Q about config-package-dev, and the number one question I received is "When will it support dh7 and not just CDBS?" I've made sure that the package builds cleanly on all supported Ubuntu releases from Lucid onwards, and tested it on Debathena's sbuild-based build server and made sure that all of the test packages in examples/ build fine on all of these releases. If you're curious, these builds are in http://debathena.mit.edu/apt in the debathena-system component of the precise-development etc. pockets. I primarily want backports for Lucid, Precise, and Quantal. I'm happy to have an Oneiric backport also, but it's being desupported soon, so I don't particularly care. config-package-dev (5.0) unstable; urgency=low * Add Debhelper support (Debathena: #867) (Closes: #693672). This release includes a new command, dh_configpackage, and a sequencer extension, dh --with config-package. * Use the terms "displace" and "hide" for actions of the config-package-dev system, instead of the terms "divert" and "remove", which already have existing (related) meanings in the context of Debian packages. * Move examples/* to examples/cdbs/*, and create examples/debhelper/*, with the same packages using Debhelper 7-style packaging. * Change config-package-dev's own packaging to Debhelper 7. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes required). * Update Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser locations to new upstream. * Drop CDBS runtime dependency. CDBS users should be explicitly Build-Depending on CDBS, probably through use of the @cdbs@ macro in debian/control.in. -- Geoffrey Thomas <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:42 -0800 ** Affects: config-package-dev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid + Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid and precise ** Summary changed: - Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid and precise + Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid, precise, and quantal ** Description changed: This is a followup to #1153009, which synced config-package-dev 5.0 to raring. (This bug report is mostly adapted from that one.) config-package-dev is a set of extension modules for CDBS and Debhelper (including a dh7 sequencer module) to allow site sysadmins to create Debian packages for system configuration. It's extensively used by the MIT Debathena project, where it originated, and used by a handful of other sites. I released config-package-dev 5.0 a few days ago (it's Debian-native), which includes the Debhelper and dh7 support, and it was just synced to raring. The previous versions of config-package-dev only support CDBS. The CDBS module in config-package-dev 5.0 remains completely API- compatible with 4.x, and furthermore, there are no packages in the archive that build-depend on config-package-dev (since it's primarily intended for use at a specific site to configure their OS, not by an upstream distribution), so the regression potential is basically nonexistent. I've tested the new version on everything in Debathena, to be confident. Backporting config-package-dev would allow us to encourage its use by folks learning Debian packaging today, since dh7 is gaining popularity over CDBS. I gave a lightning talk at UDS-Q about config-package-dev, and the number one question I received is "When will it support dh7 and not just CDBS?" I've made sure that the package builds cleanly on all supported Ubuntu releases from Lucid onwards, and tested it on Debathena's sbuild-based build server and made sure that all of the test packages in examples/ build fine on all of these releases. If you're curious, these builds are in http://debathena.mit.edu/apt in the debathena-system component of the precise-development etc. pockets. - I primarily want backports for Lucid and Precise. I'm happy to have an - Oneiric backport also, but it's being desupported soon, so I don't - particularly care. + I primarily want backports for Lucid, Precise, and Quantal. I'm happy to + have an Oneiric backport also, but it's being desupported soon, so I + don't particularly care. config-package-dev (5.0) unstable; urgency=low - * Add Debhelper support (Debathena: #867) (Closes: #693672). This - release includes a new command, dh_configpackage, and a sequencer - extension, dh --with config-package. - * Use the terms "displace" and "hide" for actions of the - config-package-dev system, instead of the terms "divert" and - "remove", which already have existing (related) meanings in the - context of Debian packages. - * Move examples/* to examples/cdbs/*, and create examples/debhelper/*, - with the same packages using Debhelper 7-style packaging. + * Add Debhelper support (Debathena: #867) (Closes: #693672). This + release includes a new command, dh_configpackage, and a sequencer + extension, dh --with config-package. + * Use the terms "displace" and "hide" for actions of the + config-package-dev system, instead of the terms "divert" and + "remove", which already have existing (related) meanings in the + context of Debian packages. + * Move examples/* to examples/cdbs/*, and create examples/debhelper/*, + with the same packages using Debhelper 7-style packaging. - * Change config-package-dev's own packaging to Debhelper 7. - * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes required). - * Update Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser locations to new upstream. - * Drop CDBS runtime dependency. CDBS users should be explicitly - Build-Depending on CDBS, probably through use of the @cdbs@ macro in - debian/control.in. + * Change config-package-dev's own packaging to Debhelper 7. + * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes required). + * Update Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser locations to new upstream. + * Drop CDBS runtime dependency. CDBS users should be explicitly + Build-Depending on CDBS, probably through use of the @cdbs@ macro in + debian/control.in. - -- Geoffrey Thomas <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:42 -0800 + -- Geoffrey Thomas <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:42 -0800 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1153089 Title: Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid, precise, and quantal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/config-package-dev/+bug/1153089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
