Re: [git-buildpackage] Bug#1106057: ITP: gwh -- git-buildpackage workflow helper

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi Otto,
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 02:13:29PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > * Package name    : gwh
> > >   Version         : 0.6.14
> > >   Upstream Contact: Roland Mas
> > > * URL             : https://salsa.debian.org/lolando/gwh
> > > * License         : GPL-3+
> > >   Programming Lang: bash
> > >   Description     : git-buildpackage workflow helper
> > >
> > > This is a wrapper script around git-buildpackage
> 
> I know git-buildpackage has a lot of options and historically it has
> been a little bit hard for packagers to figure out which commands
> exactly to use with git-buildpackage to achieve the normal day-to-day
> packaging tasks, but the man pages and the manual at
> https://gbp.sigxcpu.org/manual/ is nowadays much improved.
> 
> Are you sure that creating a new abstraction layer on top of
> git-buildpackage is useful?
> 
> You basically just have one bash script with git-buildpackage aliases
> in a fancy way. Could you just contribute to upstream git-buildpackage
> to make it easier, or have your script included at
> https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage/-/tree/master/examples
> instead of creating a whole new Debian package?

Roland and I chatted about this off list and examples/ wouldn't make it
prominent enough and as it encodes a very specific work flow it wouldn't
be suitable to install with gbp by default either so a separate package
looks like the best way forward.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

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