linting wrapper for dput

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 6 September 2017 at 08:14, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 12:54:02PM +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If, like me, you spend time preparing uploads for ppas, the ubuntu
> > development release, SRUs and/or debian, sometimes you no doubt screw up
> > and upload a package without ~ppa1 to your ppa or upload a package with
> > version X.Y~17.04 to xenial (at least, I do this sort of thing quite a
> > lot). I've written a wrapper around dput that checks for many of these
> > mistakes before invoking real dput:
> >
> >     https://gist.github.com/mwhudson/616499edb1191bd99c987bbbd8781ce9
> >
> > (it also checks that for SRU bugs the listed bugs have open tasks for the
> > appropriate distro / source packages).
>
> One problem the SRU team sometimes encounters is bugs linked in SRUs
> being private, perhaps you could also check for those?
>

Ah yes, that makes sense. A very lazy way of doing this would just be to
log in to Launchpad anonymously I guess!

I did that, and created a repo on github for this:
https://github.com/mwhudson/dput-wrap/tree/master



Cheers,
mwh
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