Bug#478167: ITP: cowpoke -- Builds a single Debian source package with a remote cowbuilder

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:02:27AM +0930, Ron wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ron <ron@debian.org>
> 
>   Package name    : cowpoke
>   Version         : 0.1
>   Upstream Author : Ron <ron@debian.org>
>   URL             : git://git.debian.org/git/users/ron/cowpoke.git (coming soon)
>   License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: bash
>   Description     : Builds a single Debian source package with a remote cowbuilder
> 
>  The cowpoke script automates the task of sending a package to a remote
>  cowbuilder instance, to be built (and optionally also signed and uploaded)
>  immediately.  It is not a replacement for a scheduling build daemon in
>  situations where many packages are continuously being built, but it does
>  take a lot of the manual work out of the task of doing a 'final' package
>  build in a clean-room environment (or for alternative architectures), for
>  people with build machines that are idle enough for manual scheduling to
>  be entirely sufficient.

Do we really need a new package for a single script ? Can't that go in
in with cowbuilder ?

Mike