I have now created a working prayer package. It's not finished, but good
enough to show you, fellow list subscribers. You can find it at:
http://www.kibibyte.se/download/debian/
Please see the ITP at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392823
for the full story.
The source package builds two packages: prayer and, for completeness,
prayer-accountd, although the latter is still pretty useless outside
Cambridge. Note: the prayer binary package uses libc-client2006b from
experimental, but the dependency is missing from the control file. You will
probably want to build the source package, after inspecting it, anyway.
> 2. Support for other character sets than ISO-8859-1 is non-existant.
> Conversion of various mail text to UTF-8 has to be added.
I have now addressed this as well as modified UTF-7 encoding and decoding. See
README.Debian.
> 5. At least minimal man pages have to be written.
I have not addressed this yet. Please disregard for now.
Something I've been thinking about:
If two packages share a /var/(lib|run|log) subdirectory, how do you know when
to remove it? I reckon that it should be removed when the last of the
packages has been purged. Both packages place files there at runtime, so dpkg
won't remove it since it's nonempty. But you can't just remove it in postrm
if it's empty. Do you:
a) leave it alone; let root delete it manually when it's no longer needed
b) use dpkg -S to see if it's still in use
c) use dpkg -l to see if the other package is still installed
d) avoid sharing directories under /var
e) do something else?
Thank you for your interest!
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Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se
(No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)
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