Tools for Debian/Ubuntu Launchpad
Project description
Some tools for easing submission to launchpad.
Usage
All options are documented under launchpad-submit -h.
Backporting
Sometimes, new versions of Debian packages are released and not backported to older Ubuntu releases. Backporting those manually was always a little bit of a hassle.
With launchpad-submit, it becomes easy: Just
find the DSC file of the package you want to backport,
add a new PPA on launchpad.net, and
execute
launchpad-submit \ --dsc "http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/metis/metis_5.1.0.dfsg-4.dsc" \ --ubuntu-releases trusty \ --ppa nschloe/metis-backports
Submitting from source
Sometimes, you may want to submit a source package with a Debian configuration that is available somewhere else. This may help setting up a nightly submission process. As an example, take the nightly submission script for a Mixxx PPA.
#!/bin/sh -ue
ORIG_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
clone "https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx.git" "$ORIG_DIR"
# Extract the version and append the date
VERSION=$(grep "define VERSION" "$ORIG_DIR/src/defs_version.h" | sed "s/[^0-9]*\([0-9][\.0-9]*\).*/\1/")
FULL_VERSION="$VERSION~$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")"
DEBIAN_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
clone "git://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/mixxx.git" "$DEBIAN_DIR"
launchpad-submit \
--orig "$ORIG_DIR" \
--debian "$DEBIAN_DIR/debian" \
--ubuntu-releases trusty wily xenial yakkety \
--ppa nschloe/mixxx-nightly \
--version-override "$FULL_VERSION" \
--version-append-hash \
--update-patches
rm -rf "$ORIG_DIR"
rm -rf "$DEBIAN_DIR"Installation
Python Package Index
The launchpad tools are available from the Python Package Index, so for installation/upgrading simply do
pip install --upgrade launchpadtools
Manual installation
Download the launchpad tools from the Python Package Index. Place the launchpad tools in a directory where Python can find it (e.g., $PYTHONPATH). You can install it system-wide with
python setup.py install
or place the script matplotlib2tikz.py into the directory where you intend to use it.
Distribution
To create a new release
bump the __version__ number,
create a Git tag,
$ git tag v0.3.1 $ git push --tags
and
upload to PyPi:
$ make upload
License
The launchpadtools are published under the MIT license.
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