[Lessfs-users] Patches for lessfs to comply with Debian policies

[Eduardo T. <etr...@gm...>]

Hi,

I've packaged lessfs for Debian.  Because of its policies and package
warnings I have had to:

* write manual pages for binaries that didn't have one
* fix existing manual pages (escape the "-" and stuff like that) and
correct spelling

Please download the debian specific source code from here[0].  You will
find the manuals under the debian folder and the patches under the
debian/patch folder.  It'd be great if you could add (some of) them to
your code.

* build without openssl support
I'd like to ask you to add a LICENSE file with the GPLvx text and the
additional text here[1], the one that mentions the exception to be able
to link with OpenSSL.  If you'd like to know more about the problem
between OpenSSL license and the GPL this is a good source of information[2].

* I had to tweak the init.d script.  This is a wishlist kind of request:
could you create a PIDFILE?  I tried using the --make-pidfile with
start-stop-daemon but it doesn't work because you fork from the main
program.  So I wrote a bit of a hack to make it work (debian/lessfs.init
in the source[0]) but *the* solution would be to have your daemon create
the appropriate file.

Thanks, it's a great piece of software, I'm testing it for a backup
drive (2T) and I'd love to use it for the imap folders at work.  I hope
a Debian package will make more people test (more easily) lessfs.

Eduardo.

[0]
http://programoj.esperanto.org.uy/angle/debian/lessfs/lessfs_1.5.4-1.debian.tar.gz
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html
[2] http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html