[Soc-coordination] Report week 10, Redesign metapackage creation for Debian Blend

[Emmanouil Kiagias]

Hello everyone,

This week:

After a discussion in person I had with my mentor Andreas (before I leave
from DebConf)  we decided to drop/postpone the following feature(which was
also mentioned in previous week reports) :

* Update blend-gen-control in order to regard versioned dependenciess ( for
the moment none of the existing Blends is using versioned dependencies and
might never use)

This week I mostly tested the code we already have. The basic idea was to
compare the control/taskdesc files for the current (blends-gsoc) and the
previous blends-dev implementation. To make testing easier I wrote a simple
script(blendsdev_compare) to automate the comparison of the files(simple
diff was not useful cause in the new implementation we use different syntax
in the generated control files).

While testing we found and fixed some bugs[0]. I also spent some time to
clean up a little the code(encapsulate better some functions)

Next week:

During the next week I will continue testing to verify that the code is bug
free. Also I will start writing some documentation in the blends-dev pages
about the new blend-gen-control implementation.


Kind regards

Emmanouil

[0]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2013/08/msg00020.html ,
https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2013/08/msg00024.html ,
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