[MERGE] Add simple script for checking that all bugs in NEWS are closed in launchpad.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:34 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >> It also adds a dependency on launchpadbugs.  There's a tightrope we walk
> >> between making bzr completely bugtracker-neutral and making it
> >> completely dependent on Launchpad.  Also, why launchpadbugs instead of
> >> using launchpadlib?
> > launchpadlib and launchpadbugs are both not packaged in Debian, but
> > launchpadlib also has two dependencies (wadlib, httplib2 >= 0.4.0) that
> > are not packaged in Debian.
> 
> - From a quick glance over the project (which doesn't really describe
> itself), I got the impression that launchpadbugs was itself based on
> launchpadlib.  That turns out to be wrong.
> 
> I do think that useful tools can be built that integrate launchpadlib
> with bzrlib.  E.g. code review/merge directive stuff, marking branches
> merged.  But that's not a reason to merge this.  I do hope Debian
> supports launchpadlib soon, though.
I agree. The choice for launchpadbugs was mainly a practical one for me,
I haven't compared the API's. As far as I know launchpadbugs just looks
at the /+text copy of a bug and parses that, so it's limited in what it
can do.

James is the maintainer of python-launchpadlib in Ubuntu; James, do you
have any plans to upload python-launchpadlib to Debian? I should be able
to sponsor if that would be useful.

> > I don't think putting it
> > into the "useful devtools" directory would imply making it mandatory to
> > use, or would mean tighter dependencies to Launchpad.
> I think it adds a "suggests launchpadbugs" to the dependency listing, no?
Yeah, that's true (only for developers though, not explicitly to the
Debian/Ubuntu packaging for users).

Cheers,

Jelmer

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