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Re: Bug#726698: ITP: puppet-module-puppetlabs-xinetd -- The xinetd module let you manage xinetd with Puppet



Hi Jonathan,

On 10/18/2013 09:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> It's good to see puppet modules being packaged for Debian.
> 
> Is there a team under which such efforts are coordinated? Are they being managed in a vcs?

There's a team on alioth[1] and the packages are all managed in git[2].
Packages from forge.puppetlabs.com can be semi-automatically created
with a python script[3]

> I'd suggest flipping the order of the two paragraphs in the long description: put the text which describes the module first, and the text which explains puppet second. I'd also suggest a shorter and more impartial puppet description such as 
> 
> "Puppet is a declarative configuration management tool for handling heterogeneous collections of hosts"

We currently use the same base description for every puppet package. I'm
open to change this to a shorter description and switch the order.


Cheers,

Tom


[1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-puppet/
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?a=project_list;pf=pkg-puppet
[3]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-puppet/meta.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin/puppetmodule2deb;hb=HEAD


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