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Tuesday, August 26. 2008Comment (1) Trackbacks (0) Defined tags for this entry: Debian
Using Zenity to review (RC) bugs
I've written a simple perl script using SOAP to add some useful data to the RC bug list (or any list of bugs). It can easily be extended but right now it supports simple things like the date the bug was filed, short description of the package, the name of the maintainer, the most recent upload data, the debtags for the package, apt-cache policy data and whether the bug is already tagged pending.
Zenity presents this info in a question dialog, clicking OK loads the bug and the PTS in your browser using 'sensible-browser'. Clicking cancel offers a new zenity dialog asking for the next bug number. (Click Cancel there to end the script.) Code: http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/rc-zenity.pl (GPLv3 or later) POD: http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/rc-zenity.html (easily convertible into a manpage using pod2man) If you like it, use it. If lots of people like it, maybe it can go into an existing package. If I've duplicated another script that I just didn't know about, tell me. It's not exclusively for RC bugs, it could work with any bug list or be modified to only look for particular severity settings. Thanks to Don Armstrong for making debbugs so accessible using SOAP. The debbugs SOAP implementation is just so straightforward with a whole load of useful data returned without needing repeated queries, it makes scripts like this really satisfying. Tuesday, August 19. 2008Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Defined tags for this entry: Debian
Adapting autofs for GPG keys to an SD card
Steve's docs on keys on a USB stick needed a few tweaks for my own systems - first thing I noticed was that I had /dev/loop0 instead of /dev/loop/0. As my configuration needs to use an SDcard instead of a USB stick or pen, I've changed the references from 'pen' to 'card'.
SDcards on my systems come out on /dev/mmcblk0 with partitions having a 'p[0-9]' suffix (p1, p2 etc.) so the DEVBASE setting needed a tweak. (This line needs to be modified for each user case anyway because the size of the partition will vary so the '62390272' value needs to be modified.) DEVBASE=`fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 2>/dev/null | grep ^Disk.*62390272\ bytes | sed 's?^.*/d?/d?g;s?:.*$??g'`A few other notes for those using Sid instead of Etch:
Barring a few typos I made in transcribing, the rest of the documentation works fine. Alternative keysI have two keys, one is intended to remain on the laptop and has comments to that effect (0xA897FD02). The other key, (0x28BCB3E3), is my Debian upload key so needs to be protected a little more than the ordinary laptop key (which I'll use when signing email on the laptop). 'debsign' does not have a way to specify a different --homedir or secret keyring or any other option that would allow me to have an alternative gpg configuration (maybe it should?). So I've copied debsign into my home scripts directory to create a slightly modified version and then I followed Steve's advice for ~/.gnupg/ to create a duplicate directory with the same permissions and a much reduced public keyring file (just exported my own keys). The secring.gpg file for this alternative homedir is the on the SD card with the autofs symlink (so the only file on the encrypted SDCard is the secret keyring). Then it is a simple case of manually calling debsign (e.g. after using debuild -uc -us): ~/scripts/debsign -k0x28bcb3e3 /path/to/.changes
Thursday, August 14. 2008
po4a - translation support from any ... Posted by Neil Williams
in i18n at
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po4a - translation support from any formatpo4a- or PO for anything. PO is the de facto standard for translations and po4a tries to help maintainers prepare packages for translation.
The natural burden, therefore, falls within l10n but without i18n, l10n is all but impossible (it means having to do the i18n "outside" the package). I'm using po4a and I've been doing various translation-support stuff now for a few years, so I'm going to add po4a into my blog entries as a series to help maintainers make their own packages i18n aware. This is particularly important for:
To make things easier, I'll be creating a new category in my blog ("i18n") for such entries. This is helpful for me too because the first time I used po4a (current versions of emdebian-tools) I basically got things wrong and made more work for myself than was necessary. This entry primarily concerns providing i18n support from manpage sources and perl scripts. i18n support in compiled packages is a separate issue. The fixes described here will be included in the next version of emdebian-tools (which will be uploaded to Emdebian but not into Debian until after Lenny). Terminology
Using po4apo4a needs a config file where the maintainer keeps all metadata relating to the master documents and the relevant formats. po4a then converts the master documents into a collection of strings for translation and puts those strings into a POT file (a PO template file). The maintainer packages the POT file (and optionally sends the POT file to relevant mailing lists seeking translations to be returned as PO files) and keeps the POT file up to date during the build process. With a config file (e.g. called po4a.config), all the maintainer needs to do is call: po4a po4a.config po4a then parses the list of files defined in the config file, generates the lists of strings, collates the lists and identifies where the same string is used in multiple files and writes out a POT file containing references to where the strings are used and the unique strings. po4a config fileComments start with '#' in the usual way. Instructions are enclosed in square brackets. po4a_paths defines where the POT file will be put (it can be extended later but I'm keeping this simple). The name of the POT file is important for compiled packages but can just be the name of the source package for scripted packages and/or manpages. [po4a_paths] po/emdebian-tools.pot type identifies *each* master document to be processed by po4a. The syntax is well suited to being generated from some other list within the package but I'll give just a snippet of the final output here: [type: xml] doc/xml/em_autobuild.1.xml That's it. The complexity of my current script was entirely unnecessary. Also, po4a is more than capable of handling multiple document types within the same source package and the same POT file which is something that I had missed so far. One more hack that can be removed. All I do now is use xmllint to "clean-up" the DocBook XML and pod2html and some XSLT to generate HTML documentation for the website. The loops to do those tasks already contain the list of files to be processed by po4a, so a few echo commands is all that is needed to create po4a.config at build time and run po4a to generate a combined POT file for all strings in the package. #!/bin/sh Saturday, August 9. 2008Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Defined tags for this entry: Debian
Progress at DebConf
First complete day after a full day travelling and I'm just about over the jet lag. Progress so far:
Overall, very good. (Posting delayed due to network problems.) It appears that drivel cannot cope with posting to the blog from DebConf. |
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