Rewriting update-maintainer
Ozgur Karatas
kreptor at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 23:48:53 UTC 2010
Hello,
sorry can i have okaratas at ubuntu.com?
Thanks
Ozgur
Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 18.12.2010, 00:44 +0100 schrieb Raphaël Pinson:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>> 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")?
>>
>> Probably endswith("canonical.com"), too?
>>
>
> No, because dpkg-source will complain then.
>
>
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