Rewriting update-maintainer

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Freitag, den 17.12.2010, 18:29 -0500 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> 
> "Benjamin Drung" <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am going to rewrite update-maintainer (it's in the ubuntu-dev-tools
> >package) to use python-debian. Looking at the current version, I am not
> >sure what this tool should exactly do.
> >
> >I think update-maintainer should do following:
> >
> >1) Check if "ubuntu" is in the Debian version. Go on to the next step
> >if
> >yes, otherwise say "Not an Ubuntu package - Nothing to do." and exit.
> >
> >2) Check if the Maintainer email address has a "@ubuntu.com" or
> >"@lists.ubuntu.com". Go on to the next step if no, otherwise say
> >"Already maintained by Ubuntu" and exit.
> 
> I believe this should substring match on ubuntu in the domain part so
> kubuntu.org or ubuntustudio.org will match.

Good point. Should we be more strict than that? Check for
endswith("ubuntu.com") or endswith("ubuntu.org") or
endswith("ubuntustudio.org")?

> >3) Move the maintainer from the "Maintainer" to
> >"XSBC-Original-Maintainer" field and set "Ubuntu Developers
> ><ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>" as new Maintainer.
> >
> >Did I oversee something? Is there a use case that is not covered? Any
> >other comments? If I receive no comments, I will JFDI [1] and release
> >it
> >with the next upload of ubuntu-dev-tools.
> >
> >[1] Just Do It.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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