On 1 September 2017 at 15:55, Simon Quigley <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 hope so :)

> 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?
>

Hm it might be the sort of thin dput-ng would do, I guess. I'll try filing
a bug there and see what happens :)

Cheers,
mwh
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