Bug#859199: ITP: dh-curl-sudo-bash -- debhelper tools for automated non-packaging
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : dh-curl-sudo-bash
> Version : 1.1
> Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> and Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
> * URL : http://deb.li/U67E
> * License : BSD 3 clause
> Programming Lang: POSIX shell, Perl
For better portability could be reimplemented in javascript of the day
using nodejs as engine.
I will also like a project like this to be cut in a dozen of packages
for better reusuability.
Piping could be implemented using a few different nodejs package.
could you let the choice to the user ?
About BSD3 could you please relicence under another license like MIT or zlib ?
Thank you
> Description : debhelper tools for automated non-packaging
>
> The dh-curl-sudo-bash package provides a build-system method for debhelper
> that automates the non-packaging of programs for which the preferred form of
> distribution is the sequence
>
> "curl http://example.com/setup.sh | sudo bash -"
>
> dh-curl-sudo-bash causes debhelper to create a maintainer post-install script
> that runs the above command on the target machine when the package is installed.
> Running dpkg-reconfigure is therefore enough to upgrade the package too, thus
> preventing problems with upgrades. The dh-curl-sudo-bash source package
> Build-Depends on devscripts so that uscan can be embedded into the postinst to
> find the correct URL for upgrades.
>
> Example usage:
>
> debian/rules:
>
> %:
> dh $@ --buildsystem=curl_sudo_bash
>
> debian/curl_sudo_bash.watch:
>
> http://example.com/setup-(.*\..*).sh
>
> For completeness, other shells can also be selected by exporting the variable
> DH_CURL_SUDO_SHELL from debian/rules:
>
> export DH_CURL_SUDO_SHELL=mksh
>
> A future extension to dh-curl-sudo-bash is planned that will permit any github
> repository to be automatically (non-)packaged; the following version will
> iterate over all github and gitlab repositories packaging everything available.
>
> We anticipate that this will make all other Debian Developers redundant as
> from now on the only thing that is now required to make high quality packages
> for Debian is to include the relevant URL. This package also obsoletes the
> previous apt-gentoo package.
>
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