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

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Hi,

IMO this is a good job for Janitor. I don't know if I would like to add the
possibility to make the
merge without human approval, but for me a MR from Janitor could be enough.



On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:14 PM Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
wrote:

> On 2020-10-06 12 h 07, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I meant Debian Janitor here.
>
> I don't know the codebase enough, but in my mind, having the thing that
> fixes problems and the thing that flags them be separate is valuable. I
> don't know if Janitor follows that philosophy though.
>
> --
>   ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
>   ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁  Louis-Philippe Véronneau
>   ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋   pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org
>   ⠈⠳⣄
>
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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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