On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 01:02:09AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Chris Leishman wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if someone could give me a quick rundown on maintaining > > a non-US package, ie. how to upload, what the section name in the package > > should be and anything else that is relevant. > > Simply upload it to nonus.debian.org, there's also an incoming > directory, send the mail to dd-changes. > > > Also, what is the state of the non-US distribution? > > What do you want to hear? "horrible"? "desastrous"? Well, take a look > at nonus.debian.org and judge yourself. Thats what I sort of figured....What is required, IYO, to fix it? Also, I've got a policy query with regards to the package I'm putting together. If you can't answer this, can you tell me which list I should post it too? Basically, I'm taking over the cfs package from non-US. I've got it all cleaned up and packaged, but atm I'm not sure that it should be doing some of the things it is. These are as follows: Creates 2 directories in /, one called /crypt (which stores the crypted directories that are attached using cattach) and one called /.cfsfs (which is an empty directory of mode 0, only to use as a bootstrap point for NFS). Note that the directory names are currently customisable via the postinst, but they are not removed when the package is (however a message is printed informing the user to remove them themselves). The postinst modifies the /etc/exports file to add a 2 lines as follows # Automatically added for use by cfs /.cfsfs localhost(rw) # Cryptographic Filesystem export Then '/etc/init.d/nfs-server reload' is called. These lines are removed during a purge by regex matching. If you like, a preliminary version of the package is at: ftp://seldon.ormond.unimelb.edu.au/pub/debian/cfs/cfs_1.3.3-2_i386.deb It has no debian docs, but it is lintian clean, except for the following message: W: cfs: unknown-section non-us Thanks again for your time joey. Regards, Chris -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q) ....Debian GNU/Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5
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