Please backport pbuilder-scripts 17 (universe) from quantal

[Adam Stokes]

Please backport pbuilder-scripts 17 (universe) from quantal to precise.

Reason for the backport:
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Greatly increases productivity when doing package builds on a daily basis.

Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:adam-stokes/pbuilder-scripts -s quantal -d precise pbuilder-scripts

* precise:
[X] Package builds without modification
[X] pbuilder-scripts installs cleanly and runs

No reverse dependencies

Additional Notes:
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I've been running this successfully on Precise to handle package
builds for Lucid, Precise, and Quantal.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

While I will not argue that everyone has their own tools, but have you seen ubuntu-dev-tools?
Specifically:
pget equivalent is pull-lp-source which can do this:
$ pull-lp-source autofs (will pull the source package from raring)
$ pull-lp-source autofs5 lucid-updates ($distro-$pocket to pull from)
$ pull-lp-source autofs5 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5.1 (exact version to pull)

Also there is $ pull-debian-source which does the same thing but fetches from debian or snapshots.
Above includes _any_ of the old releases.

pcreate, pudate, pbuild etc can be used with pbuilder-dist

$ pbuilder-dist $distro [$arch] $action

Where actions are: create, update, build, clean, login, execute.

Plus it supports symlinks, e.g. you can create a symlink $ pbuilder-dist-lucid, and it will tab-complete & default to lucid.

So my question is why do you want these, instead of using pbuilder-dist & pull-lp-source from the ubuntu-dev-tools package which is already in precise and has all of these tools supporting all releases (past and development).

(it can even use cowbuilder for faster build)

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Talkint to mterry there is one killer feature of easy/flexible support for custom repositories.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Further discussed this with mterry and filed a bug 1078920 to add unique pbuilder-script's features into ubuntu-dev-tools / pbuilder-dist.

In the mean time this is a valid request to improve development on lucid.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Uploading based on stated testing

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Accepted in precise-backports