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 -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Rod Stewart: My Heart Can't Tell You No
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