Bug#508899: [debcheckout] use the PTS SOAP interface to lo..

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.43
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/debcheckout

[ type of bug report: reminder to self ]

When migrating from a VCS to another, users are faced with the
annoying drawback that stable releases can have out of date
information wrt Vcs-* fields. In that case, debcheckout is likely to
fail, and requires maintainer to keep around empty repos with README
files pointing to the new repo.

This can be solved by equipping debcheckout with lookup of Vcs-*
fields from the PTS, using the new SOAP API [1].

Also, I've never been happy with the current ugly "apt-cache search
.... | grep ..." approach.

Cheers.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts/SoapInterface

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBUILD_ROOTCMD=fakeroot
DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.23 Debian package development tools
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii at 3.1.10.2 Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii bzr 1.5-1.1 easy to use distributed version co
ii curl 7.18.2-7 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System
ii dctrl-tools 2.13.0 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii debian-keyring 2008.11.30 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii debian-maintainers 1.49 GPG keys of Debian maintainers
ii dput 0.9.2.36 Debian package upload tool
ii epiphany-gecko [ww 2.22.3-8+b1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii fakeroot 1.11.3 Gives a fake root environment
ii git-core 1:1.5.6.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii gnupg 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii iceape-browser [ww 1.1.13-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii iceweasel [www-bro 3.0.4-1 lightweight web browser based on M
ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.12-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1+b1 Support for https protocol in LWP
ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.710.08-1 Client and server side SOAP implem
ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii libwww-perl 5.820-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.05-1 Fast, lightweight YAML loader and
ii lintian 2.1.2 Debian package checker
ii lsb-release 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base version report
ii lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7dev10-5 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
ii mercurial 1.0.1-5.1 Scalable distributed version contr
ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-4 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original
ii patchutils 0.2.31-4 Utilities to work with patches
ii strace 4.5.17+cvs080723-2 A system call tracer
ii subversion 1.5.1dfsg1-1 Advanced version control system
ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii wdiff 0.5-18 Compares two files word by word
ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent
pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available)
ii gnuplot 4.2.4-4 A command-line driven interactive
ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-1 Perl module to handle freedesktop
pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available)
ii mutt 1.5.18-4 text-based mailreader supporting M
ii svn-buildpackage 0.6.23 helper programs to maintain Debian

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