Re: [DebianGIS] OpenLayers 2.5 Debian Packaging

[Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt@metacarta.com>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:27:26AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2007 9:24 AM, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt@metacarta.com> wrote:
> 
> > It looks like this goes about halfway, and follows a similar pattern to
> > what I did for the bits it does. I just added a lot more fluff around
> > it, especially the actual linking of it into Apache.
> 
> I'd like to see a discussion about how to package JS libraries, flash
> bits and similar on the debian-webapps list, and perhaps something
> written into the draft webapps policy:
> 
> http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/
> 
> I imagine checking out the fckeditor packaging would also be
> instructive for openlayers packaging.

fckeditor has the same problem as the earlier packaging for OpenLayers
-- it does not include anything to actually enable the application to be
used, other than a comment in README.Debian. 

This is in violation of the "should" suggestions in
http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ch-httpd.html.
(Obviously not a bug -- simply a lack of functionality.)    

I've CCed debian-webapps, though in the past 5 months there have only
been 4 non-spam threads on that list, so I don't know how much response
this will draw in.

For context to debian-webapps: this discussion is about packaging of
OpenLayers, a Javascript web mapping library. The current debian
packaging materials are in
http://svn.openlayers.org/sandbox/crschmidt/debian/ , and as best I can
understand, it meets all the requirements of the webapps-common draft
policy. A thread was started at:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2007-December/002931.html

and should be read for more context.

I've subscribed to both lists. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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