[requestsync] should support getting information out of a .dsc file

[Benjamin Drung]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

requestsync should be able to get information out of a .dsc file instead of getting them from Debian, because there is a delay between the upload of a package to Debian and getting the information about this upload from Debian.

Use case: I want to upload a package to Debian and directly afterwards request a sync, but not wait hours between the upload to Debian and the sync request.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Wouldn't an --expert mode be better which asks about package name, version, changelog entries and distribution but skips most online checks (rmadison, LP API) instead of adding support for parsing .dsc files?
A quick look at a .dsc file shows only the package name and version as useable information. Changelog entries and distribution to sync from are missing.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 06:10:23PM -0000, Michael Bienia wrote:
>Wouldn't an --expert mode be better which asks about package name, version, changelog entries and distribution but skips most online checks (rmadison, LP API) instead of adding support for parsing .dsc files?
>A quick look at a .dsc file shows only the package name and version as useable information. Changelog entries and distribution to sync from are missing.

However, this information is available in a .changes file, which you
have if you are uploading to Debian.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

You can parse the corresponding source files to extract debian/changelog.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

as this is ~10 years old, i'm closing as wontfix