Bug#360631: ITP: germinate -- Expand dependencies in a list of seed packages

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : germinate
  Version         : 0.12
  Upstream Author : Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>,
                    Colin Watson <cjwatson@canonical.com>
* URL             : http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeedManagement
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Expand dependencies in a list of seed packages

 Germinate takes lists of seed packages and expands their dependencies to
 produce a full list of packages. This can be used for purposes such as
 managing the list of packages present in a derived distribution's archive
 or CD builds.

We wrote this program for Ubuntu originally to work out how much we
could fit on a single CD, but it's now used as an important part of the
Ubuntu archive and CD image building processing, including deciding what
packages end up in our main component and which in universe. There are
some Ubuntu-specific bits in it but they're mostly in the form of
default configuration options.

I hadn't thought it was worth uploading this to Debian before, but
Gustavo Franco asked me to package this for Debian (for Utnubu, I
gather), so I don't see why not.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]