[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#869499: Bug#869499: nginx: [PATCH] Automate modules watch & upgrade process

[Christos Trochalakis]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 09:42:47PM +0300, Mpampis Kostas wrote:
>Package: nginx
>Severity: wishlist
>Tags: patch
>
>This patch introduces the debian/modules/uscan script and some helper
>files which can be used to automate the modules watch & upgrade process.
>
>The main script is executed as '$ debian/modules/uscan' without any arguments from
>the root of the debianized nginx source tree where you see the debian/ directory.
>
>It runs uscan for each nginx module listed in the newly deb822 formatted
>debian/modules/README.Modules-version using the watchfiles in debian/modules/watch.
>
>If a new version is available, it will ask you if you want to upgrade.
>If you agree, it will download the tarball, place it in the parent directory
>and upgrade the module's source.
>
>After the upgrade, it will remove the files listed in the
>Files-Excluded module field.
>
>Example output:
>
>$ debian/modules/uscan

Thanks a lot Mpampis, great patch, it's a time saver!

Since the module config is now a proper deb822 file, we can rename it to
debian/modules/control. As a final step, this might be a good time to
cannonicalize the module paths to exactly match the package naming. I
believe this should happen first to keep the diffs as simple as
possible.

Regarding the script itself, I believe we can make it more generic
(ngxmod?) and add uscan as a subcommand, we can the add more commands
like list, add, etc.