On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:07:46 -0600
David Segonds <david@segonds.org> wrote:
> Dear mentors,
Hi David,
[I'm not really a mentor but interrested in phpLDAPAdmin]
> I am working on packaging phpLDAPadmin which is a php product to manage
> an LDAP server.
[...]
> Packages are available on http://www.segonds.org/
>
> 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the
> 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same
> thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin.
It's normal because you built it on this architecture but the most
important is the *_all* in the '.deb'
> 2. There is an INSTALL file in the upstream .tar.gz and I want to copy
> it in /usr/share/doc/phpldapadmin but 'lintian -l' is complaining about
> it saying that upstream install instructions are useless to the Debian
> users installing the package. Can I rename this file as README, as it
> contains more information than the traditionnal INSTALL instructions?
No problem with that, maybe you can add this information in your
README.Debian file.
> 3. How far should I go in configuring the package after installation?
> Should I prompt the user for the information about the LDAP server
> he/she intends to connect to? Should I let the user manually edit the
> configuration file. Changing two lines is likely to be enough in most
> situations.
There is a document descriing the use of debconf but I did not find the
exact reference :'(!
You can see the man page of debconf:
DEBCONF(7)
Priorities
Another nice feature of debconf is that the questions it asks you
are prioritized. If you don't want to be bothered about every little
thing, you can set up debconf to only ask you the most important
questions. On the other hand, if you are a control freak, you can
make it show you all questions. Each question has a priority. In
increasing order of importance:
low Very trivial questions that have defaults that will work in
the vast majority of cases.
medium Normal questions that have reasonable defaults.
high Questions that don't have a reasonable default.
critical Questions that you really, really need to see (or else).
Only questions with a priority equal to or greater than the
priority you choose will be shown to you. You can set the
priority value by reconfiguring debconf, or temporarily by passing
--priority= followed by the value to the dpkg-reconfigure (8) and
dpkg-preconfigure (8) com- mands, or by setting the DEBIAN_PRIORITY
environment variable.
So if phpLDAPadmin absolutely needs an url to an ldap server, you'll
have to ask the admin. If it's not needed you don't need to ask no
question.
Best regards,
--
.''`. Arnaud Vandyck
: :' : http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/
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