Re: Request for feedback: debcraft improve

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:02:54 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The command `debcraft improve` can be run in a Debian packaging git
> repository to automatically fix several mechanical maintenance items
> common for most Debian packages.

Nice!  I have been looking for some simple tools to automate the many
manual/mechanic package update steps I often make.  I ran debcraft 0.9.1
(from testing, on a trixie-derived OS) in a checkout of latest
'trillian' git, and got the error below.  I do have a ~/.gitconfig with
this information.  Presumably the stuff below is running inside a
container somehow that lack the same configuration.  Couldn't it guess
these things better?

...
Reformatted ./debian/control.
DEBCRAFT WARNING: Command exited with code 2.
++ wrap-and-sort -ast
Author identity unknown

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'jas@9fbdbd299580.(none)')
DEBCRAFT ERROR: Unresolvable issues found - please read the output above carefully
jas@frallan:~/dpkg/trillian$ git log -p

/Simon

> I recently refactored the code so that each check is in a separate
> script and each fix results in a well-documented git commit.
>
> If you are using Debcraft, I'd like to invite you to test the latest
> version (0.9.1) and give feedback on how these automatic fixes work
> for you and potentially contribute more at
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debcraft/-/tree/main/src/container/improve.d
>
> I am tring to do this in a way that it does not overlap too much with
> lintian-brush. There are also cme and other fixer scripts, but I am
> trying to achieve something simpler and more integrated.
>
>

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