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Re: Bug#648896: ITP: kup -- kernel.org upload tool



On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 06:53 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mi, Nov 16, 2011 at 00:05:58 (CET), Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> >
> > * Package name    : kup
> >   Version         : 0.2
> >   Upstream Author : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> > * URL             : git://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/kup/kup.git
> 
> The URL is not a website. I haven't seen seen git:// urls in other
> package descriptions yet, but
> http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/hpa/kup/kup.git;a=summary would have made
> it easier, I think.

Maybe I'll do something like that.  It turns out that the canonical
location is the repository on git.kernel.org, by the way.

> > * License         : GPLv2+
> >   Programming Lang: Perl
> >   Description     : kernel.org upload tool
> >
> > This utility is used to upload files to kernel.org and other
> > systems using the same upload system (kup-server).  Each upload
> > is required to have a PGP signature, and the server will generate
> > multiple compressed formats if the content uploaded is intended to be
> > compressed.
> 
> Do you intend to package kup-server as well? It seems to be included in
> the same sources after all, but you don't mention it in the package
> description.

Yes.  The packaging is already committed at
<http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=kernel/kup.git>.  I'm waiting for
the Perl transition to clear before uploading.

Ben.

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