Bug#519377: Integrate yaclc in devscripts?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:28:34PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Its an already existing tool. But indeed an interesting question.
It is an existing tool, ... which was going to disappear. So I think
it is reasonable to ask whether it should really be saved or not.
> > If the check is all it does, it looks like a simple "--check" option
> > can be added to tagpending to achieve the same effect.
>
> I don't know if this matches the use-case. AFAICS yacls is meant to
> be used as a dput hook or so, to tell you "OH! WAIT! You are gonna
> close the wrong bugs if you really upload now"
Yep, that's clear. The reasoning for associating the two is that
blatantly they deal with the same entities: last changelog entry, BTS
inquiry about open bugs and owning packages. Before joining the burden
of maintaining both, now in the same package, I cannot help thinking
whether there is an alternative :-)
Regarding your dput hook use case, which is a really interesting one,
I don't see a problem in that hook being encoded as "tagpending
--check", you write once, you stop thinking about it forever.
That said, I do agree that the name of the tool (tagpending) could
become non-intuitive. So my proposal is to actually add the option to
tagpending *and* to have an additional symlink under /usr/bin,
pointing to tagpending, which would just mimic the (future) behavior
of the tagpending check. How does that sound?
Cheers.
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