Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Robert Millan <rmh.debian.bts@aybabtu.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:44:38AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:18:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> > Package: wnpp
>> > Severity: wishlist
>> > Owner: Robert Millan <rmh.debian.bts@aybabtu.com>
>> > 
>> > * Package name    : vsag
>> >   Version         : 0.0.1
>> >   Upstream Author : Robert Millan <rmh.debian@aybabtu.com>
>> > * URL             : not yet released
>> > * License         : GPL
>> >   Programming Lang: bash, make
>> >   Description     : Very Simple Archive Generator
>> > 
>> >  Vsag is a very simple program aimed at generating Debian archives out of
>> >  a directory filled with packages.
>> >  .
>> >  It doesn't track state or manage the directory itself in any way.  Its
>> >  purpose is to provide a very simple method to generate the files normally
>> >  provided by a Debian archive so that it can be used by programs like apt
>> >  or debootstrap.
>> 
>> Why not improve dpkg-scanpackages instead? What is there missing that
>> you'd need?
>
> Not at all!  dpkg-scanpackages works fine, in fact Vsag uses it to generate
> Packages files.  But it does also a few other things:
>
>   - Generates compressed Packages.{gz,bz2}.
>
>   - Generates Release indexes.
>
>   - Automated gpg signatures.
>
>   - DAK-like dists/ directory structure (with per-architecture separation)
>
>   - etc

Why not use reprepro ich is real simple to configure and does all this
and more.

MfG
        Goswin