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

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sun Mar 10 13:23:09 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:40:31AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> 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.

It looks good.  Could you provide a man page?

As far as the naming issue that was raised, I'd be fine with either
who-permits-upload or who-allows-upload.  The latter is what came to
mind for me, but that's probably because I immediately thought of
"allow" in DMUA.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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