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Message #00128
[Bug 788137] Re: provide a ubuntu-packagers package and a "setup wizard"
There's a script `setup-packaging-environment' in ubuntu-dev-tools that
aims to do this. It should certainly be updated, but that might be a
nice place for someone to start. The maintainers of ubuntu-dev-tools
have been talking about improving it recently as well. I'll reassign
this bug there as that's probably a good place for this script to live.
Thanks for the report!
** Also affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ubuntu-packaging-guide
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
** Changed in: ubuntu-packaging-guide
Status: Won't Fix => Invalid
** Changed in: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788137
Title:
provide a ubuntu-packagers package and a "setup wizard"
Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-dev-tools” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Firstly, I'm really impressed with the packaging guide! But reading
http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/html/getting-
set-up.html made me wonder...
Why don't we provide a package called "ubuntu-packager" (or similar)
such that the user can do this:
$ sudo apt-get -y install ubuntu-packager && ubuntu-packager-setup
...where:
- the "ubuntu-packager" package would be a meta-package that installs
the required packages:
gnupg pbuilder ubuntu-dev-tools bzr-builddeb apt-file
- the ubuntu-packager-setup would be a script (shell / python) that
would essentially be a command-line wizard that would do everything
mentioned in the "getting-set-up" page: it would check to see if the
user has any gpg keys. If so, it would present a menu and ask the user
which they want to use for packaging. If they don't have any keys, it
would run "gpg --gen-key", etc, etc.
Note that this idea is in no way at odds with having the packaging
guide, but I think it would lower the "barrier to entry" for newby
packagers still further, which has to be a good thing IMHO :-)
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