Goals
This script automates to run a specific set of command over a large number of package.
Specifications
When maintaining a large set of packages, from time to time it is required to apply the same change to all packages.
All this kind of changes follow the same mechanism:
- guess some package dependent variable (debian version, upstream version, binary packages name et al)
- test if the change applies
- apply change
- create a changelog entry
This script helps most of this step:
- get the package list using a file containing glob pattern
- guess every variables for each package
- help generate a perl/sh script to be used with
In order to use it, a change script compliant with this application should be used (helper to write the skeleton of this is provided). This change script is stored in a particular place (.config/debmasschanges/scripts).
This script is called with the name of the change script and additional parameters and apply the change if required to every package listed in the package file.
Examples:
- upgrade the debhelper compat in every package (don't forget to test if everything is fine regarding dh compat)
- upgrade the standards version of every package (be sure to do this correctly regarding the standards-version upgrade checklist)
- check that every README are 72 char wide
- check that every package are released (compare changelog version to debian repository version)
Lang: Perl
Status
In progress
