Bug#679763: debsnap: bisect option/script

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 21:44 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> For source history, "gbp inport-dscs --debsnap" gives you access to real
> "git bisect" access.  So no point reinvention it in debsnap itself.

I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the tip.

> (Yes, I am living in high bandwidth region.)

Yeah, for me that would be a prohibitive exercise.

I can't imagine how Joey Hess would use that ;)

> For binary package history checking, dependency etc. matters and most
> likely needs your manual attention.  At least with the new --list option
> printing out sorted list of versions, you can do bisect like action
> manually whice checking dependencyetively recent versions. 

I don't see any --list option in the debsnap in unstable.

pabs at chianamo ~ $ debsnap --binary --list libc6
Unknown option: list
...

I would really like to see a general bisect tool that could wrap
debsnap and other bisect situations.

This can be hacked around using a fake git repo and git bisect though,
so once debsnap --list is available that should be enough.

> Do you still think we should add complexities into debsnap?

No. 

Please close this bug with the upload that adds debsnap --list.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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