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| Changes to devscripts |
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2007-01-22 00:45:15 |
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| Re: Changes to devscripts |
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2007-01-22 03:00:25 |
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| On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:45:15AM +0000, Martin Meredith wrote:
> Recently, when running a release script for katapult, which automates
> the build process of deb's for both ubuntu and debian, (using pbuild) I
> came across the following error.
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> dch warning: Recognised distributions are:
> {warty,hoary,breezy,dapper,edgy,feisty}{,-updates,-security,-proposed}
> and
> UNRELEASED.
> Using your request anyway.
> dch: Did you see that warning? Press RETURN to continue...
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> While I understand the reasoning behind this - surely it's going to be
> an annoyance to ANYONE using ubuntu to make releases for both ubuntu and
> Debian? or even just working on something for debian ...
>
> I know I'm not going to want to press enter every time.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to just get it to show a warning? I mean, looking
> at the code, it does check whether it's on Ubuntu or Debian, but it
> shouldn't assume that you're building it for that distribution, I use
> ubuntu, but I do things for debian too... and I'm sure a lot of the
> core-devs do.
>
> Is there any way to get rid of this, at least get rid of the "Press
> RETURN to continue..." ? (I've already edited my local scripts - but I
> don't think this should be in the package)
Good question. Let's hear from some of the other Ubuntu developers:
what would be a good solution to this one?
Julian
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| Re: Changes to devscripts |
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2007-01-23 09:46:08 |
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| On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 09:00 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:45:15AM +0000, Martin Meredith wrote:
> > Recently, when running a release script for katapult, which automates
> > the build process of deb's for both ubuntu and debian, (using pbuild) I
> > came across the following error.
> >
> > dch warning: Recognised distributions are:
> > {warty,hoary,breezy,dapper,edgy,feisty}{,-updates,-security,-proposed}
> > and
> > UNRELEASED.
> > Using your request anyway.
> > dch: Did you see that warning? Press RETURN to continue...
> >
> > While I understand the reasoning behind this - surely it's going to be
> > an annoyance to ANYONE using ubuntu to make releases for both ubuntu and
> > Debian? or even just working on something for debian ...
> >
> > I know I'm not going to want to press enter every time.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to just get it to show a warning? I mean, looking
> > at the code, it does check whether it's on Ubuntu or Debian, but it
> > shouldn't assume that you're building it for that distribution, I use
> > ubuntu, but I do things for debian too... and I'm sure a lot of the
> > core-devs do.
> >
> > Is there any way to get rid of this, at least get rid of the "Press
> > RETURN to continue..." ? (I've already edited my local scripts - but I
> > don't think this should be in the package)
>
> Good question. Let's hear from some of the other Ubuntu developers:
> what would be a good solution to this one?
For automated scripts, add a "-y" for "Do what I say, and don't ask
questions".
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| Re: Changes to devscripts |
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2007-01-25 01:56:49 |
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| Re: Changes to devscripts |
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2007-01-25 02:02:14 |
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| On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 07:56 +0000, Martin Meredith wrote:
> That doesn't really solve my issue though - ok, it's a workaround, but
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> 1) I'm not going to put it every time
> 2) If I do - I might miss some warnings that I wouldn't otherwise
> 3) My issue was more of it being something that should be changed in the
> script, not change the way I work with things. Surely this cannot only
> be used by *me* for doing work in ubuntu AND debian ?
I tend agree. I think if the script has no stdin, then maybe it should
just print the warning, and not fail.
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