[setup-packaging-environment] Extend functionality

[Daniel Holbach]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

It'd be great to have a script that sets up your development environment. In an ideal world, people would just run these commands and be fully set up:
 - $ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-dev-tools
 - $ ubuntu-dev-setup

The script would do the following (there's probably more it should do in the future, but this is all I can think of):
 - ask for name and email address
 - check if a gpg key exists (check for files in ~/.gnupg(?)), if not create one (there's an experimental feature of gnupg to create keys in 'batch mode') and upload it
 - check if a ssh key exists, if not create one (check for ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub(?)) (ssh-keygen -t rsa)
 - add DEBFULLNAME/DEBEMAIL to ~/.bashrc (not sure yet, what's the best way to do that; also what about zsh users)
 - find out current development series (lplib) and run "pbuilder-dist <series> create" if necessary (check for ~/pbuilder/<series>-base.tgz)
 - find out launchpad id (lp.people.me) and run 'bzr whoami "<name> <<email>>"' and 'bzr launchpad-login <launchpad-id>'
 - open https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editpgpkeys and https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editsshkeys in a browser
 - open https://launchpad.net/+login if no launchpad id exists

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

We all know that there's millions of ways to configure your development environment. It's just important that newcomers get a very simple way to get started.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

We have already a tool called 'setup-packaging-environment'. Either extend this script or merge it into ubuntu-dev-setup.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Maybe it'd be possible to port setup-packaging-environment to python and make it use lplib?

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

Is the lplib support really needed? If we only need to know the development release we don't need it. Additionally, the user may be prompted for the launchpad ID.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Can you investigate what setup-packaging-environment does and what you expect from it to do?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I did a quick review of the code (and will test it in a VM later on). Here's what I found:
 - no GPG key is being created (this could be done only if there's no key available)
 - we should install packaging-dev instead of all the other packages
 - no SSH key is being created (this could be done only if there's no key available)
 - bzr whoami/lp-login is not set
 - pbuilder-dist create <release> is not run (if ~/pbuilder/<release>* is not available)
 - ~/.bashrc could be sourced
 - The user could be reminded to set up a Launchpad account if it does not exist (if the script used python, it'd be easier to check)
 - The user should be pointed to http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Additionally I filed bug 841981 and bug 841975.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

+1 for `bzr whoami`. See bug #1247539 for details.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

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