Re: closure on the changes file format?

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

On Sun, 27 Aug 1995 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
> 
> In order to reinvent the wheel only once: could someone who has already
> written a piece to do this please post it?

My script is sort of an ongoing hack-in-progress, and not the
sort of thing I'd normally let loose in public.  it's pretty
messy, but it does build my packages consistently and now
does construct a perins-style package announcement.

Here's a sample trial-run announcement:

PACKAGE:  bc
VERSION:  1.03-7
DATE:  Mon Aug 28 09:36:32 PDT 1995
Priority:  Routine
Changes:  Administrative changes only
 Changed extended description for the bc package to the one used by GNU.
 Renamed debian.* files using conventions followed in my other source packages.
 Added SECTION field to control files.
 [... still in progress ...]
# File: <name> <size> <md5checksum> <destination>
File: bc-1.03-7.tar.gz 121464 f7ec678489d560f7351f74879b528871 source/math
File: bc-1.03-7.diff.gz 20538 6b02bdbb3c45c682fe660114964224a0 source/math
File: bc-1.03-7.deb 36038 6b51c17f1221df29f4d2546ac522329e binary/math
File: dc-1.03-7.deb 19306 dde73305227569a917a18e6c4eb113d2 binary/math

And here's some lines cut out of the script.  I can post the
whole thing here if there's interest.

        if [ ! -f ../changes -o ../changes -ot debian.README ]
        then
            echo $i/changes file is missing or outdated 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
        if grep -q '^ *$' ../changes
        then
            echo $i/changes has disallowed blank lines in it 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
        if ! grep -q '^Priority:' ../changes
        then
            echo $i/changes has no Priority field 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
        if ! grep -q '^Changes:' ../changes
        then
            echo $i/changes has no Changes field 1>&2
            exit 1
        SECTION=`dpkg-deb --field $DEB section`
        if [ X$SECTION = X ]
        then
            echo "No SECTION field in control file" 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
        DATE=`date`
[... and, later ...]
        echo ----------- doing announce file for $i-$REV
        DEB=`ls $i/*.deb | head -1`
        PACKAGE=`dpkg-deb --field $DEB package`
        VERSION=`dpkg-deb --field $DEB version`
        REVISION=`dpkg-deb --field $DEB package_revision`
        if [ X != X$REVISION ]
        then
                VERSION=$VERSION-$REVISION
        fi
        SECTION=`dpkg-deb --field $DEB section`
        if [ X$SECTION = X ]
        then
            echo "No SECTION field in control file" 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
        >$i-$REV.announce
        echo "PACKAGE:  $PACKAGE" >>$i-$REV.announce
        echo "VERSION:  $VERSION" >>$i-$REV.announce
        echo "DATE:  $DATE" >>$i-$REV.announce
        cat $i/changes >>$i-$REV.announce
        echo "# File: <name> <size> <md5checksum> <destination>" \
             >>$i-$REV.announce
        for j in tar diff
        do
            FILE=$i-$REV.$j.gz
            SIZE=`wc -c $FILE | sed -e 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
            MD5SUM=`md5sum $FILE | cut -d' ' -f1`
            echo "File: $FILE $SIZE $MD5SUM source/$SECTION" >>$i-$REV.announce 
        done
        for j in $i/*-$REV.deb
        do
            FILE=`echo $j | sed -e "s/$i\///"`
            SIZE=`wc -c $FILE | sed -e 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
            MD5SUM=`md5sum $FILE | cut -d' ' -f1`
            echo "File: $FILE $SIZE $MD5SUM binary/$SECTION" >>$i-$REV.announce 
        done