Bug#519377: Integrate yaclc in devscripts?

[Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:17:31PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:27:31PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> > Sandro Tosi orphaned the package yaclc, because the maintainer of
> > it (Thomas Smith <tgs@debian.org>) isn't active anymore.
> > 
> > Ralf Treinen suggested to integrate it into devscripts.
> > I think that this is a good idea. What do the other devscripts
> > maintainers think?
> 
> Do we really need (yet another) separate tool for that?

Its an already existing tool. But indeed an interesting question.
Eventually not. I haven't looked properly into it. I just saw the tool
and figured, that it might be better placed in devscripts instead of
beeing an orphaned native package.
 
> 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"

Regards,
Patrick