[Bug 1153089] [NEW] Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid, precise, and quantal

Sat Mar 9 23:46:19 UTC 2013

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 <geofft at mit.edu> 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 <geofft at mit.edu> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:42 -0800
+  -- Geoffrey Thomas <geofft at mit.edu> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:42 -0800

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