Re: dput: Call for feedback: What should change? What should stay the same? (was: Trouble with debsign, dput)
Hello Ben,
>
>I recently donned the mantle of maintaining ‘dput’ and am carefully
>making improvements. I am conscious of the special need for backward
>compatibility so I am taking care to understand how the Debian developer
>community uses it today.
ok, I used dput I think version "0.9.6.4ubuntu3"
first issue: probably a package outdated on Debian derivatives is bad and makes
people switch to dput-ng
(at least this happened to me)
second issue:
this is a warning when uploading on DebOMatic:
(I don't see it with dput-ng)
This account is restricted by rssh.
Allowed commands: scp sftp
If you believe this is in error, please contact your system administrator.
Warning: The execution of '/usr/bin/ssh' as
'ssh debomatic@debomatic-i386.debian.net chmod 0644 /srv/debomatic-i386/telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2.dsc /srv/debomatic-i386/telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2.debian.tar.xz /srv/debomatic-i386/telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes'
returned a nonzero exit code.
Error while fixing permissions.
third issue:
dput ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes
(upload performed)
"wrong! the package had target suite "unstable", dput-ng refuses to upload in a ppa if the target
suite is Debian like
fourth issue:
dcut seems to work differently
dcut ftp-master reschedule -d 15 -f virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.3.36-1+deb8u1_amd64.changes
D: dcut 0.2.1
D: trying to get maintainer email from environment
D: Uploader from env: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
D: first argument "ftp-master" treated as host
D: loading dput
D: calling dput.read_configs
D: Parsing Configuration File /etc/dput.cf
D: Parsing Configuration File /home/locutus/.dput.cf
D: Successfully parsed command "reschedule -d 15 -f virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.3.36-1+deb8u1_amd64.changes"
D: calling debsign: ['debsign', '-mGianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>', '/tmp/dcut.TYTeK6/dcut.Gianfranco_Costamagna__locutusofborg_debian_org_.1483097699.28814.commands']
.commands file has invalid Commands line: reschedule -d 15 -f virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.3.36-1+deb8u1_amd64.changes
debsign: .commands file appears to be invalid. see:
ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README
for valid format
Error: debsign failed.
dcut ftp-master dm --uid "samueloph@gmail.com" --allow pixiewps
Error: Could not parse commands at "dm"
>So I'm now familiar enough, but still fresh enough, that feedback is
>particularly valuable.
I would like to have an updated package, compatible with dput-ng, that works in Ubuntu and Debian uploads.
and it is kept in sync :)
>I'd like to take the opportunity of this thread to ask:
>What does ‘dput’ do that you really think should not be changed?
>What does ‘dput’ do that you wish it would stop doing?
work in a -ng compatible way, or with some better documentation about reschedule/dm commands
>What do other tools do better than ‘dput’? Do you think that ‘dput’
>should change to do those things the same way?
other tools do better checks for sanity before uploading
>The same questions can be asked of the ‘dcut’ program from the same
>package.
and now with dput from unstable:
dput debomatic-amd64 ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes
Checking signature on .changes
gpgme: ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes: error 55: Invalid value
(7, 55, u'Invalid value')
dput ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa ../telepathy-ring_2.1.0-2_source.changes
No host ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa found in config
and so on...
thanks for maintaining it!
(maybe I'm just doing it wrong, I had a bad experience dated some years ago, I switched to dput-ng, and now
everything works(TM) )
G.
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