What is REVU-Tools

REVU-Tools is a set of scripts which can be used to automate the reviewing process.

For a guide to reviewing Debian packages, you can refer to MOTU/Packages/Reviewing.

UPDATE: THIS IS NOT USED BY REVU ANYMORE, BUT CAN STILL BE INSTALLED FOR PERSONAL USE.

How to use it

On REVU, only REVU admins can run these tools. If you are not a REVU admin, ask one to run it on the package you want to review.

If you are a review admin, wanting to review a $package updated on $date, and $url is the url of the $upstream tarball, run

cd /var/revu/revu1-incoming/$package-$date
wget $url
revu-report

This will generate report files in the current directory, that will appear on the REVU interface.

revu-report detects the dsc, the orig and the upstream tarball automagically. If there are several dsc files in the directory and/or several files that could be upstream tarballs, you'll have to run:

cd /var/revu/revu1-incoming/$package-$date
wget $url
revu-report $tarball $dscfile

Since version 0.3, revu-orig uses uscan to take advantage of debian/watch files in the package and get the upstream tarball automagically. Therefore, it is not necessary to download the upstream tarball anymore in many cases, just run :

cd /var/revu/revu1-incoming/$package-$date
revu-report

If files are missing to generate the report and there is no debian/watch, then it will be said so in the report, and you can get the upstream tarball manually and run the command again.

The main file to look at is REVU_report, that gathers most of the useful informations gotten from the scripts :

• Whether there is a usable debian/watch file in the package ;
• Whether the is a new upstream tarball available ;
• Whether the package is a Debian-native (no orig.tar.gz + diff.gz) ;
• Whether the package FTBFS ;
• Whether the upstream tarball has been changed or repacked ;

• Whether debuild && debuild -S -sa generates files in diff.gz outside of debian/ ;

• Whether lintian and linda are happy about the package.

Since version 0.3.1, REVU-tools have been made into a REVU-independant deb package, available in Dapper (universe) . This package is made to work on any system, but might require to adjust some settings in the scripts. In particular, you might want to change PBUILDERNAME in /etc/revu-tools.conf (most users want "sudo pbuilder", on REVU it's "pbuilder-dapper") to have it fit with your settings. You'll obviously need a working pbuilder to use REVU-Tools on your machine.

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