[Piuparts-devel] please give a try to adequate in experimental

[Nicolas Dandrimont]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 6, 2024, at 23:34, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> hello piuparts folks,
>
> first of all, thank for your work to make Debian better!
>
> I'd like to ask you to give a try to the version of adequate in experimental,
> and let me know if you see any issues that should block its upload to unstable
> [0]

Thanks for the heads-up!

> I've recently rewritten adequate and I'm reasonably confident that it can be
> used as a drop-in replacement (--all output is identical pre/post rewrite in my
> local system, autopkgtests pass), but you know, Debian is vast and diverse.
> some minor differences do exist, the most notable of which I think is dropping
> short-form flags [1]

piuparts only ever calls adequate outside of the chroot, with the --root argument pointing at the chroot, and the package name.

As long as the output is compatible and the tag names didn't change, I don't think piuparts should be affected.

We should probably add a piuparts autopkgtest that checks the adequate integration to avoid regressions in the future.

Cheers,
-- 
Nicolas Dandrimont