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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