Bug#688830: devscripts: [new] Please include who-permits-upload as a convenient interface to retrieve DM permissions

[Arno Töll]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.3
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

please consider inclusion of who-permits-upload, a Perl script I wrote to query
and retrieve DM upload permissions in a convenient way. A preliminary version of
it can be inspected on [1] but it may still lack some polishing from my side, I'll
be doing within a few days.

It does not add Perl dependencies which aren't already in Recommends of
devscripts.

Example usage:

$ ./who-permits-upload sciteproj yagf
Package: sciteproj DM: Andreas R�nnquist <gusnan at gusnan.se> Sponsor: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Package: yagf DM: Boris Pek <tehnick-8 at mail.ru> Sponsor: Eugene V. Lyubimkin<jackyf at debian.org>

$ ./who-permits-upload -s uid debian at abeckmann.de
Package: glx-alternatives DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: khronos-opencl-headers DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: libthrust DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: libvdpau DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvclock DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-cg-toolkit DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-cuda-toolkit DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-173xx DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-graphics-modules DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-settings DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-support DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: nvidia-xconfig DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Package: vdpauinfo DM: Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sponsor: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>


$ ./who-permits-upload --search sponsor ansgar 
Package: cookietool DM: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> Sponsor: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org>
Package: freealut DM: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> Sponsor: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org>


[1] http://daemonkeeper.net/wp-content/files/who-permits-upload

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev  1.16.8
ii  libc6     2.13-35
ii  perl      5.14.2-13
ii  python    2.7.3-2

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-2
ii  curl                      7.27.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools               2.22.2
ii  debian-keyring            2012.06.01
ii  dput                      0.9.6.3
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.4-2
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-4+b1
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libdistro-info-perl       0.10
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.10.2
ii  man-db                    2.6.2-1
ii  patch                     2.6.1-3
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python-debian             0.1.21+nmu2
pn  python-magic              <none>
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.7
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-7
ii  wdiff                     1.1.2-1
ii  wget                      1.14-1
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20120614-1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.5
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.0-8
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-2
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1500-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>
ii  libterm-size-perl            0.207-1
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.20-1
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-6.2
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.0p1-3
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-8

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