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Re: Uploaded cnews-cr.g-1, inews-2.1, nntp-1.5.11t5



Hi again,

>  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         9638 Mar  9 21:42 inews-2.1-1.tar.gz
>  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         2069 Mar  9 21:42 inews-2.1-1.diff.gz
>  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         8701 Mar  9 21:42 inews-2.1-1.deb
>  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       149176 Mar 10 17:51 nntp-1.5.11t5-1.tar.gz
>  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         9554 Mar 10 17:51 nntp-1.5.11t5-1.diff.gz
>  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        39312 Mar 10 17:50 nntp-1.5.11t5-1.deb

I could not get cnews-cr.g-1.deb up to master.debian.org at my
first try. (1000 msec at 40 % packet loss does not make ftp happy.)i
Try 2 worked, so there is now a cnews-cr.g-1.deb-try2 file there.
Can someone with the permissions (upload's seem to be restricted)
fix this, please ?

Furthermore, a few words on the issue of the News setup:

There is no detailed description in the fsstnd where all the usual
components of the newsserver should live. Based on my reading I
choose the following:

	Article spool:	/var/spool/news
	Overview spool:	/var/spool/news
	scripts&binaries: /usr/lib/news
	active/config/history: /var/lib/news

(common old paths are: /usr/spool/news/,nil,/usr/lib/newsbin/,/usr/lib/news)

Regrettably the choice must be in acordance with the setup of 
newsreaders who read directly from the spool and other programs who
access the news database (inews, nntpd, mail2news, slurp, ...)

Other issues:

	username/groups: I used news.news as the owner.
	uucp config ? C news needs to determine queue sizes. For that
		it wants to know the uucp mode. I selected taylor native.
	shared config with readers:
		the trn package uses /etc/news/mailname to detect which
		address local postings get. Should the cnews package
		install this file ?
	rnews path:
		Where does uucp expect the rnews command to live ?
	crontabs:
		should the postinst install crontab entries ? (yes)
	packagename/dependencies/conflicts/provides:
		I did not see a clear scheme on how the dependencies
		for inews/inn/cnews/inninews/newsreader should work out.
		So I improvised. Could we get an agreement on this issue ?
	Default configuration:
		I refused to try to make a smart config script for cnews.
		It's too complex. Any takers ?
	Can we have scripts like the init.d-install script for
		crontabs and inetd.conf, too ? It's a hassle to write
		such things in each package who uses them.

I'd very much appreciate feedback as I probably have made stupid mistakes.

happy hacking,

otmar
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