From: Filipus K. <ch...@gm...> - 2009-10-01 02:37:15
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Jean-François B. a écrit : > Hello all, > > As you (probably) know, DEBIAN package require a control file with some > important information. > This is the extract of the current control file i made : > > Package: tiki > Version: 3.2-0 > Architecture: all > Maintainer: Jean-François B. <cha...@gm...> <= only for this one > will be replace by a Debian Maintainers > > Installed-Size: 109184 > Depends: php5-gd, php5-mysql | php5-pgsql | php5-sqlite | php5-sybase > Suggests: php5-xcache, php5-ldap, php5-suhosin > Section: web > Priority: optional > Homepage: http://www.tikiwiki.org > Description: CMS/Groupware Project > What is Tiki ? Tiki is powerful web based application created by > large team of developers from the TikiWiki CMS/Groupware project. > Tiki is the perfect tool for you to build and maintain your > Website/Wiki/Groupware/CMS/Forum/Blog/Bug Tracker or any other > project you can imagine running in your browser window. > Tiki is Free (as in both, Free Software like in "Freedom" and > Free of Charge like in "Free Beer") for everyone ! > It has the right features you need "out-of-the-box": > * Wikis (like in Wikipedia) > * Forums (like in phpBB) > * Blogs (like in WordPress) > * Articles (like in Yahoo News) > * Image Gallery (like in Flickr) > * Map Server (like in Google Maps) > * Link Directory (like in DMOZ) > * Multilingual (like in Babel Fish) > * Bug Tracker (like in Bugzilla) > * RSS Feeds (like in Digg) > * Free Open Source software (LGPL) > And much more... > > > Could some of you just validate the content ? Hi Jean-François, at the risk of being annoying, I'm going to ask you a last time whether you looked into The Debian Tikiwiki Packaging Project. And perhaps even, how deeply did you look into it? Did you try to contact Marcus Better? As I wrote in http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4AB1CB73.5080301%40gmail.com > Although it stopped at version 1.9, I guess a good part of the > packaging could be reused (including the dependencies, discussed in > the Wiki page). The package already entered Debian unstable, so it > should comply with the FHS in good part. Packaging huge software like Tiki is non-trivial and will require a real time investment. I'm willing to advise, but would like to be sure we're on the right track and not losing our time. The control file has quite a few issues. I'm sure a good part of these issues weren't present in the original package. And the control file is not the hardest part. Many hours were put in the original package, and it failed to be useful, even if Marcus had taken the time to setup an Alioth project. Let's make sure if we should give up another time, at least the packaging will have done a step forward. That being said, regarding the control file, I agree with Mike. The description should be marketspeach-free. In the short description, spell out CMS (Content Management System). No need to say "Project" since we're talking about the product. Perhaps "Content management system and groupware with many features". Salutations, Philippe |