motu-tools package ? (Was: The Masters Of the Universe Presents: REVU2 Satisfies MoM)

On 15/11/05 at 17:51 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Di, 2005-11-15 at 14:43 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I branched those tools and added my own, which allow to track the
> > version numbers of a set of packages in Debian & Ubuntu.
> > 
> > See an example output for all packages which depend on libruby1.8 :
> > http://ox.blop.info/bazaar/du-versions-ruby.html
> > 
> > The bzr repos is on 
> > http://ox.blop.info/bazaar/motu-tools/, feel free to branch from it.
> > 
> > Read
> > http://ox.blop.info/bazaar/motu-tools/README.lucas to understand how
> > this works.
> > 
> > Now, the problem is: how are we going to distribute this ? Should we
> > make a motu-tools package ?
> 
> Well....my opinion: not now.
> 
> There will come a lot of other stuff in ... and it's now a bit of
> everything.
> 
> Ruby Python (ogra what about a nice perl hack from u?) etc. and this is
> something we should avoid.

The only ruby part is the text->html generator. Everything else is bash,
and writing the same text->html generator in python would probably take
~30min.

> Right now it's development and we should handle this like it...bzr is
> enough (actually all Ubuntu Devs need to practice BZR, so this is a nice
> practice) for now....when everything is shiny (bugfree) and ready to
> drop (to be released) ;) we will see about a package.

I think that even in the current state, the scripts are useful to MOTUs.
We don't need to build one big package for all our tools.
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