Re: automated packaging

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On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 11:00 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> Hi,
>  For several packages it is possible to automate build, test and
> package updating on multiple fedora releases (+epel) in a single
> keypress using the cockpituous (sic) tools [0]. These tools hide quirks
> and requirements of the fedora tooling, and allow a very efficient
> orchestration of package releases (see [1] for a script which releases
> gnutls  for example).
> 
> I'm transforming more of the packages I maintain to that form, however,
> there is much more value if that is done once for all the Fedora
> maintainers. While obviously the maintainers who are also involved in
> upstream developing would benefit most, the majority of the maintainers
> which have packages which follow good practices will benefit from such
> a simple automated rebase, spending their time only for reviewing
> changes. Is that something that is already being worked on?

FWIW, I would be *extremely* reluctant to use something that big that's
a) written in shell script (ugh) and b) has no tests.
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