Re: Bug#723823: ITP: python-diskimage-builder -- Image building tools for Openstack

[Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org>]

Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2013-09-19 23:52:38 -0700:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : python-diskimage-builder
>   Version         : 0.0.2
>   Upstream Author : OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>
> * URL             : https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder
> * License         : Apache-2.0
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Image building tools for Openstack
> 
>  Diskimage-builder tools are the components of TripleO that are responsible for
>  building disk images. It has the core functionality for building disk images,
>  filesystem images and ramdisk images for use with OpenStack (both virtual and
>  bare metal). The core functionality includes the various operating system
>  specific modules for disk/filesystem images, and deployment and hardware
>  inventory ramdisks.
>  .
>  The TripleO project also develops elements that can be used to deploy
>  OpenStack itself. While users and operators can manually script or put
>  together ram disks and disk images, mature automation makes customisation and
>  testing easier.
> 

Hi Thomas, thanks for packaging diskimage-builder. As you probably know,
I am one of the core developers on the parent project, OpenStack On
OpenStack (TripleO).

It is not really a python program. It has a small python component,
and it uses python tools for building, but that is just to conform with
OpenStack. The bulk of the code is bash.

So, I recommend just calling it diskimage-builder.