Please find, for review, the debconf templates and packages descriptions for the approx source package.
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Rationale:
By far my shortest diff...:-)
I found no needed change to the templates file...and for
debian/control, I only find the following proposal:
--- approx.old/debian/control 2009-03-13 20:21:57.121276766 +0100
+++ approx/debian/control 2009-03-22 08:16:08.069276140 +0100
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
Package: approx
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${F:OCamlDeps}, lsb-base (>= 3.2), adduser, bzip2, curl, openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd
-Description: caching proxy server for Debian archive files
- Approx is an HTTP-based Debian archive server.
+Description: caching proxy server for .deb archive files
+ Approx is an HTTP-based archive server for Debian-style repositories.
It fetches packages from remote repositories on demand,
and caches them for local use.
Unbranding.... As approx can be used in derivative distros and like we
generally recommend, I suggest making the description a little bit
less Debian-centric.
I keep "Debian" in one place as "Debian-style", still.
.
Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or
- upgrade Debian software for a number of machines on a local network.
+ upgrade software for a number of machines on a local network.
Each package is downloaded from a remote site only once,
regardless of how many local clients install it.
The approx cache typically requires a few gigabytes of disk space.
We do not upgrade "Debian" software only but all software (....that's
packaged as .deb archives, of course !)
--
Template: approx/port Type: string Default: 9999 _Description: TCP port for approx service: Please enter the TCP port on which approx should listen for requests. The default is the value used by apt-proxy, for compatibility with its clients' /etc/apt/sources.list files.
--- approx.old/debian/control 2009-03-13 20:21:57.121276766 +0100
+++ approx/debian/control 2009-03-22 08:16:08.069276140 +0100
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
Package: approx
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${F:OCamlDeps}, lsb-base (>= 3.2), adduser, bzip2, curl, openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd
-Description: caching proxy server for Debian archive files
- Approx is an HTTP-based Debian archive server.
+Description: caching proxy server for .deb archive files
+ Approx is an HTTP-based archive server for Debian-style repositories.
It fetches packages from remote repositories on demand,
and caches them for local use.
.
Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or
- upgrade Debian software for a number of machines on a local network.
+ upgrade software for a number of machines on a local network.
Each package is downloaded from a remote site only once,
regardless of how many local clients install it.
The approx cache typically requires a few gigabytes of disk space.
Source: approx
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
Uploaders: Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>, Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0), cdbs, dh-ocaml, ocaml-nox (>= 3.11), ocaml-best-compilers, libnethttpd-ocaml-dev (>= 2.2.9), libpcre-ocaml-dev (>= 5.15), libsha-ocaml-dev (>= 1.5), libsyslog-ocaml-dev (>= 1.4)
Standards-Version: 3.8.0
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git
Homepage: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git
Package: approx
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${F:OCamlDeps}, lsb-base (>= 3.2), adduser, bzip2, curl, openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd
Description: caching proxy server for .deb archive files
Approx is an HTTP-based archive server for Debian-style repositories.
It fetches packages from remote repositories on demand,
and caches them for local use.
.
Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or
upgrade software for a number of machines on a local network.
Each package is downloaded from a remote site only once,
regardless of how many local clients install it.
The approx cache typically requires a few gigabytes of disk space.
.
Approx also simplifies the administration of client machines:
repository locations need only be changed in approx's configuration file,
not in every client's /etc/apt/sources.list file.
.
Approx can be used as a replacement for apt-proxy,
with no need to modify clients' /etc/apt/sources.list files,
or as an alternative to apt-cacher.
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