Make parse_dsc a classmethod of DscFile

so we have the object creation close to the object itself.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gbp/deb/dscfile.py b/gbp/deb/dscfile.py
index 6f450e2..abaf690 100644
--- a/gbp/deb/dscfile.py
+++ b/gbp/deb/dscfile.py
@@ -110,4 +110,12 @@ class DscFile(object):
     def __str__(self):
         return "<%s object %s>" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.dscfile)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def parse(cls, filename):
+        try:
+            dsc = cls(filename)
+        except IOError as err:
+            raise GbpError("Error reading dsc file: %s" % err)
+        return dsc
+
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