Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 00:05 +0000 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > 1. ubuntu-dev-tools contains a bunch of scripts. Some of them are useful > > only for Ubuntu, but some of them are general usable for packaging. > > These scripts are: > > > > mk-sbuild > > Speaking just for this script, it's a "user-friendly" wrapper around > sbuild/schroot to do initial setup, including package installation and > chroot creation. However, it's very Ubuntu-specific. Rather than > copy the script, even with the Ubuntu-specifics taken out, I'd rather > integrate select pieces into sbuild proper such as into > sbuild-createchroot. > > If the other scripts are of a similar nature, I don't think they are > suitable with significant modification; it may be worth looking at > correcting the deficiencies in the tools they wrap. Maybe one or two. For example suspicious-source and wrap-and-sort are good candidates for devscripts. > > Should these script moved from ubuntu-dev-tools into devscripts? > > > > Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them > > included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts > > would depend on python then. > > Most of the scripts are short. Rewriting would be fairly simple, and > may be beneficial in removing the Ubuntu-specific bits. What speaks against having these script in python? Is python too heavy for a _development_ machine? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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