Re: Example of packaged Django web application
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 11:36:56AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2019 12:12:47 +0200 Olivier wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've read this [1] document but it doesn't include any example yet.
> >
> > 1. Do you know any Django application that is already packaged for
> > either Stretch or Buster ?
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lava is one.
>
> The problem is that this is much, much more than a Django application.
> The lava-server package contains & deploys a web UI from a set of
> django apps configured together. Questions about that package are best
> sent upstream: https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/pkg-lava-debian
>
> You may get more examples this way:
> $ apt-cache rdepends python3-django|grep -v python3
> Reverse Depends:
> freedombox
> lava-server
> graphite-web
> dicoweb
> autoradio
>
> > 2. How about adding in this Wiki page, a link to this example ?
>
> For the reasons above, the lava-server package isn't the easiest to
> parse. I'm not aware of a hello-world type django package. The one
> listed on the draft page was subsequently turned into lava-server but
> then has been refactored several times and expanded in multiple
> directions.
>
> > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DjangoPackagingDraft
>
> The page itself is very old - 6 years with the Draft suffix and plenty
> of TODO items. It mentions south migrations which don't happen anymore
> with django from stretch or buster. The whole page is badly out of date.
>
> I don't know if any of the above packages ever looked at the draft
> during packaging. I know that the lava-server package no longer follows
> that draft in any meaningful manner. The page is still tied in with
> changes to Django from django 1.2 to 1.3. The best thing for this page
> might be that it gets deleted or at least edited to have a warning that
> it is horribly out of date.
Or better: replace the page with what this thread yeilds
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Geert Stappers
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