Re: forward-patch (was: Wheezy!)
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:19:06PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 06:59:35PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > Forward-bug/forward-patch
> > -------------------------
> >
> > I still think that a tool for easily forwarding bug reports and
> > patches to the CPAN RT would be helpful; in svn/scripts there's
> > forward-patch -- but it only contains POD that outlays my ideas at
> > that time.
> >
> > In the meantime Tim has detected RT::Client::REST, David was in
> > contact with the upstream author of App::rtpaste, and Maximilian also
> > has expressed interest in such a tool. -- Maybe someone can invest a
> > rainy afternoon into such a tool?
>
> Finally I got around to write also the forward-patch script. It's not the
> most beatiful piece of code on the earth but, at least, it seems to work :)
>
> It simply gets the path to a patch and optionally the name of the
> distribution to which the patch applies. If not set it is read from
> debian/control or debian/changelog (just like forward-bug does).
>
> Then it reads the patch's header and uses it as the body for the RT ticket.
> The subject is taken from the patch's name, with some rework (I didn't
> think of anything better).
>
> Finally the ticket is created using the RT's email interface, since
> RT::Client::REST, AFAICS, does not support attachments. The email is sent
> using the /usr/sbin/sendmail executable (with some help provided by
> MIME::Lite), so one of the many mta in Debian should suffice. The good news
> is, no PAUSE credentials are needed.
>
> Oh, the script is on SVN [0]
>
> Cheers
>
> [0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/forward-patch?view=markup
Any comments?
Cheers
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