r2528 - in packages/trunk/vdrift/debian: . patches + new DGT policy check proposal

[Eddy Petrișor]

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Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:

(Please reply to the list, you know I read it :o)

> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:03:29AM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
>>> +	msgfmt -c -o vdrift-2007-03-23-src/po/nl.mo vdrift-2007-03-23-src/po/nl.po
>>> +		vdrift-2007-03-23-src/po/nl.mo
>> Can't these be integrated into the upstream build system?
> It is but the data files are needed to complete the installation and I
> don't want to hack the scons files just for this. The src and data

OK, but this gives me an idea ...

> should be copied in the same directory to complete correctly upstream
> install process.

And the idea is to add a supplemental games policy check for our
packages in the autobuilder[1][2], so that we make sure we don't
diverge too much from the upstream code and we make sure we give
them back patches we have.


The check might roughly do something like:
- - count the files in debian/patches, if any, and warn if their
number is too big
- - compute the size of the debian/patches directory and warn if their
cumulated size is too big
- - warn when the diff from one package is too big (with means to
define what is normal, probably through a autobuilder configuration
or some svn property associated to the package)
- - or warn when the debian diff.gz makes a leap in size from one
release to another (this would have to be persistent somehow, and
should be overriddable through svn somehow, so maintainers can have
a way to say "I have checked the leap and is ok")

What do people say? Does this seem like a worth to implement idea?


P.S.: BTW, isn't it high time to make a tools area in our repo and
move the autobuilder[2] there? Gonéri?


[1] http://nana.rulezlan.org/~goneri/pkg-games/
[2] source is available from
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/people/goneri or
svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/people/goneri

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Regards,
EddyP
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