On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:01:21 -0300, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > When: Wednesday, 2008-08-06, 11:00 (UTC-3)
> > Where: Salón de Mar ("larger talk room", 7th floor)
> And the meeting has happened!
A short followup:
> We more or less followed
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks
I've updated the page now.
> Should we package only modules or also applications?
> ----------------------------------------------------
> * Some people might be interested in packaging perl applications too.
> * The consensus was to put applications "somewhere separate".
> * Someone [tm] needs to start the initiative.
This probably needs a bit more work by interested parties.
AFAIK there's an "apps" branch in the svn-repo and maybe also an
empty git repo somewhere on alioth but I think not more.
> debian/rules again
> ------------------
> * For mass-updates it would be nice to have the information about
> which debian/rules-template is used. Ideas:
> - add a "header" to debian/rules, containing some unique identifier
> e.g. the version number of dh-make-perl
> - save the md5sum of the used template somewhere
That needs to be done.
> * debian/rules and quilt:
> - the debian/rules template could find out the need for including
> quilt stuff itself (and fail if there's no build dependency on
> quilt), so we'd have a template for quilt- and non-quilt packages
> - some external script for check quilt/patches
I've added Frank's proposal to dh-make-perl in svn (but it's not yet
used): rules.dh7+quilt.xs+noxs
> debian/copyright
> ----------------
> * The group is no legal entity and therefore cannot be the copyright
> holder.
> * "The superset of the module license and the Perl license" seems
> like a good default licensing for debian/*.
> * Create a boilerplate that refers to changelog for the contributors.
That needs to be created. Maybe someone who speaks en_LEGAL can
propose a nice wording for "Files: debian/*\nCopyright: $foo\n
License: $bar"?
> * Ask contributors when joining the group to accept the "default
> mechanism" and keep gpg-signed mails.
AFAIK there was no work on that task yet.
> * We change dh-make-perl to output the new format.
Gunnar has started to work on automatically creating a
debian/copyright file in dh-make-perl. I think it still needs a bit
more polishing; and I've included the copyright-creation in the
--refresh option, together with backup files.
So dh-make-perl is a bit "under construction" at the moment :)
> Debian Policy 3.8.0
> -------------------
> * Publish a template for README.source and add it to all packages
> that use quilt and don't have one.
I've integrated a check into `packagecheck' and added the missing
README.source files.
> * Apache 2.0 license in /usr/share/common-licenses
IIRC Frank has already done this.
> Adopting packages
> -----------------
..
> * Todo: Write a "How to adopt a package".
My draft:
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/adopt.html
(in svn/website)
> Bugs
> ----
> * We have many old minor bugs open, we need somebody to triage them.
Yes.
And upgrade 3 dozens of packages ...
> debian/watch
> ------------
> * qareport could show a warning if debian/watch uses a non-dist URL.
Tincho?
> * Let's replace all by-author/by-module URLs.
Done.
Cheers,
gregor
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