Bug#688319: devscripts: Please consider including the 'yodack' tool

[Gergely Nagy]

Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> writes:

> Hi there!
>
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:07:11 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> writes:
>>> BTW, is there any reason not to use dput/dcut for upload, but instead a
>>> custom curl command?
>>
>> Because when the tool was originally written, neither dput nor dcut were
>> happy about .dak-command files for one, and because for uploading a
>> single file, they both seemed like overkill to begin with.
>>
>> (In all honesty, a longer-term plan is to improve yodack to the point
>> where it can replace dcut alltogether.)
>
> Well, dcut accepts .commands and works using the same configuration file
> than dput, while yodack wants yet another configuration file.  Your
> call, but this seems to me duplication for no real advantage.

It doesn't take much effort to support .commands files, and the same
config file. I just didn't get around to do it yet, and .dak-commands
was the priority. (Hence the longer-term plan being replacing dcut, not
an immediate one :)

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