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Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification

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On 2020-10-03 15 h 35, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> attached the dd-list of the packages missing the pristine-tar branch (some
> may have been moved/removed, but these are actual repos in DPT)
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:38 AM Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> i would like to propose a project to make sure our teams (DPMT/PAPT)
>> repos are using pristine-tar properly.
>>
>> The checks i have in mind for now, are:
>>
>> * pristine-tar branch must exist, if not -> it's a bug
>> * pristine-tar + upstream branch must produce the same tarball as
>> downloaded from the archive, if not -> it's a bug
>> * bonus point: fix the repo if it doesn't generate the right tarball
>> and or the branch is missing.
>> * bonus point: make this into a service that runs regularly (not
>> strictly necessary to be limited to us)
>>
>> i guess we should have a brief discussion about additional checks
>> and/or procedures before "assigning" it to a volunteer. let's say up
>> to 2 weeks of discussion, and during the same period volunteers can
>> nominate themselves.
>>
>> I marked this project as newcomers as it doesn't require to be a DD/DM
>> to work on it, you just need a salsa account and access to our teams.
>> a handy tool to retrieve all our repos is at
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules
>> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-apps
>>
>> that contains a config file for `mr` and a `checkout` script to fetch
>> the repos registered in that config file.
>>
>> Please feel free to discuss this project now :)

I had a chat with folks in #debian-qa last night, as I agree such checks
would be nice to have.

1. Lintian is not suited for that kind of checks, as it does not have
network access. Frankensteining lintian to do that kind of stuff would
surely be met with fierce opposition.

2. The vcswatch script [1] from the QA team already does something akin
to what we would want. It's written in Perl [2], but doesn't look
terribly complicated. When a check doesn't pass, it issues an
action-item like this one [3].

I think the first step would be modifying vcswatcher to issue warnings for:

* the absence of pristine-tar branches
* missing git tags
* repositories using 'master' instead of 'debian/master' as the main branch

Once these are flagged, we can easily script a way to fix them, maybe
even using lintian-brush?

As for the problem of pristine-tar and the upstream branch not producing
the same tarballs, I think it would be best to have that done in another
script altogether.

Cheers,

[1]: https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch
[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/master/cgi-bin/vcswatch
[3]: https://tracker.debian.org/action-items/1469895


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Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2020-07-10 06:40 +0200
  Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> - 2020-07-19 17:10 +0200
    Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2020-07-19 19:30 +0200
      Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> - 2020-07-20 10:50 +0200
  Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2020-10-06 18:10 +0200
    Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2020-10-06 18:20 +0200
      Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com> - 2020-10-06 20:40 +0200
    Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> - 2020-10-06 20:40 +0200
  Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2020-10-09 13:20 +0200
    Re: Newcomers project: DPMT/PAPT pristine-tar verification Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2020-12-11 19:00 +0100

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