Hey Michael, > If, like me, you spend time preparing uploads for ppas, the ubuntu > development release, SRUs and/or debian, sometimes you no doubt screw up > and upload a package without ~ppa1 to your ppa or upload a package with > version X.Y~17.04 to xenial (at least, I do this sort of thing quite a > lot). I've written a wrapper around dput that checks for many of these > mistakes before invoking real dput: > > https://gist.github.com/mwhudson/616499edb1191bd99c987bbbd8781ce9 > > (it also checks that for SRU bugs the listed bugs have open tasks for > the appropriate distro / source packages).
Amazing, this will be really useful. Thank you! > I've only been using this for a couple of days but I hope it's going to > save me a bunch of time, maybe it will for you too :) I wonder if there's a way to bake this into dput officially (i.e. running these checks and giving an option to override if necessary). Maybe file a bug in Debian? -- Simon Quigley [email protected] tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
