make requestsync work with less rdepends

Christoph, just to make sure I understand you correctly. You are the Debian maintainer for a number of Debian packages and your main system is Debian, you don't generally have a Ubuntu system at your disposal and want requestsync to work better on a Debian host? So far so good?

How did you currently manage to grab the script? Take the sources and recompile or just grab the ubuntu deb itself (AFAIK, it's only python code, after all).

Your sumary is mostly correctly. I do have a ubuntu setup on a test
system which I use to test some more difficult cases on ubuntu but for
small and important fixes I do prefer to simply put that out from my
debian notebook I work with

Currently I installed the .deb package with it's load of rdepends. As
requestsync won't start up without a launchpad soap handle in place I
was not trying to work around that with simply putting the script but
would be absolutely fine in just using the script if that would work.

The current version in 'trunk' should at least display the help without connecting to the LP API but it still needs python-launchpadlib installed.
But I'm already working to make requestsync work without python-launchpadlib installed (e.g. when mailing the reports) and use it only when --lp was specified.

Fix committed to trunk (r484).

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.76

---------------
ubuntu-dev-tools (0.76) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Nicolas Valcárcel ]
  * mk-sbuild-lv:
    - Add check for built-in dm_snapshot (LP: #398414)

  [ Andreas Moog ]
  * update-maintainer:
    - Don't silently fail when Maintainer-Field contains a comment
      in brackets. (LP: #397144)
    - Don't add second XSBC-Original-Maintainer if Maintainer was set
      to Motu or Core-Dev.

  [ Michael Bienia ]
  * Drop python-launchpad-bugs from Depends.
  * Add python-lazr-restfulclient to Depends.
  * buildd: Add a --batch mode for batch retrying/rescoring of packages.
  * requestsync:
    - Use UBU* environment variables before the DEB* ones (lp: #400133)
    - Split requestsync into a "mail" module and a "lpapi" module and use
      the LP API only when --lp was used. In "mail" mode requestsync has
      to ask some more questions for parts it can't find out without LP API.
      (lp: #406659, #416955)

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * requestsync:
    - Guard some calls when -n is specified
    - Fetch changelog of specified version, not current version. If an
      experimenal upload happened after the unstable one we're syncing, this
      is considered to be current by p.d.o and we would get those changelog
      entries in the sync request
    - Remove trailing fullstop from sync bug title
  * suspicious-source: Add *.hs *.el *.css to whitelist

  [ Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals ]
  * pbuilder-dist:
     - Expand "~" in PBUILDFOLDER to the user's home directory.
     - If there's a "etc/<distro>/apt.conf" file inside the build result
       directory, pass it to pbuilder as --aptconfdir. Thanks to Paul Novotny
       and Ryan Pavlik (LP: #363043).

  [ Luca Falavigna ]
  * Switch to python-support to ease initial import into Debian:
    - debian/control: build-depend on python-support instead of pycentral,
      also remove unneeded XB-Python-Version field from binary stanza.
    - debian/rules: set DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM to pysupport.
    - ubuntu-dev-tools.preinst: remove stale pycentral files on upgrades.

  [ Nathan Handler ]
  * Add pull-revu-source and doc/pull-revu-source.1
  * Update debian/copyright to include pull-revu-source

 -- Nathan Handler <email address hidden> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:24:23 +0000