linting wrapper for dput

[Juerg Haefliger]

On 09/03/2017 10:58 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1 September 2017 at 15:55, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey Michael,
> 
>     > 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
>     <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).
> 
>     Amazing, this will be really useful. Thank you!
> 
> 
> I hope so :)
> 
>     > I've only been using this for a couple of days but I hope it's going to
>     > save me a bunch of time, maybe it will for you too :)
> 
>     I wonder if there's a way to bake this into dput officially (i.e.
>     running these checks and giving an option to override if necessary).
>     Maybe file a bug in Debian?
> 
> 
> Hm it might be the sort of thin dput-ng would do, I guess. I'll try
> filing a bug there and see what happens :)

I think this can all be handled with dput-ng hooks [0] or callbacks are
whatever they're called. Why not create a dedicated package
(dput-ng-ubuntu or something) that provides those hooks?

...Juerg

[0] http://dput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/hooks.html


> Cheers,
> mwh 
> 
> 

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