[Reportbug-maint] Modularization work in progress

[Ben Finney]

"Chris Lawrence" <lawrencc at debian.org> writes:

> As I've alluded to, I've been working on a modularized reportbug
> tree for the past few weeks in a git repository. [...]

Interesting timing. I've just finished my more limited-scope
modularisation work. (I didn't see any response from you, Chris, when
I said I was working on this. Hopefully we won't be treading too much
on each other's toes.)

The goal of moving the library code into a Python pacakge directory is
important enough that I think we should aim to achieve it soon (before
the Debian freeze), so I've done it as a separate, minimal-impact task
without any other structural changes.

It's in the Subversion repository as the 'reportbuglib' branch,
<URL:svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/reportbug/reportbuglib>.

> I'm attaching what I've got so far, which *mostly* works, but I
> haven't tested everything and haven't adapted the unit test
> framework to it yet or updated README.developers

I have achieved what I set out to do: all the reportbug library code
is moved into a Python package directory named 'reportbuglib', and
everything continues to work AFAICT.

> Note that the diffs are a bit messy and reflect some changes in
> design along the way (notably the "dreportbug" -> "reportbug"
> renaming).

I've only focused on getting a working Python package directory for
the existing library modules. The above aspects are important
(especially I think the name 'reportbug' is the more natural name for
the Python package directory), but can be addressed separately from
getting the package working at all.

> The easiest way to run reportbug in-tree now seems to be:
> 
> PYTHONPATH='.' bin/reportbug (options)

I haven't moved the programs into a 'bin/' directory with my current
changes.

Please have a look at this branch. I think it's ready to merge in
*now*, to enable some of the other benefits we're aiming for in
future, as well as assisting packaging and testing.

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Ben Finney