Re: announcing backport script designed to reduce potential human errors

[micah anderson <micah@riseup.net>]

Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if a something like this is worth including in
> devscripts, but I found that it wasn't fun to worry about all the
> potential mistakes one could make when building formal backports, so
> I've been using a script to prevent errors such as:
>
> * building a backport on the wrong branch (lintian catches bad
>   changelog entries)
> * building a backport in the wrong chroot/schroot/LXC or with the wrong
>   pbuilder tarball
> * forgetting to generate the correct foo.changes file, or generating
>   one against the wrong version
> * not realising that a backport will need to pass through NEW

All of these are nice. You should look at Russ' script that does
something similar:
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/scripts/backport.html

It hasn't been updated since 2015, but it still works well. I still use
it.

It has similar functionality of your script, and it seems like there is
a little overlap. It would be good to merge the efforts!

-- 
        micah