Bug#494849: Status of Debian packaging for libauthcas-perl ?
Hi.
Great : upstream very responsive and supporting ;)
Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 11:29 +0200, Olivier Salaün a écrit :
> That's a great idea.
> The AuthCAS perl module was initialy written for the Sympa software but
> I maintained them separately. I wish to change this and make Sympa use
> the AuthCAS CPAN module.
OK.
> Therefore it is important to have it available
> as a Debian package.
>
And also for instance to CAS-ify perl apps (I'm interested in trying for
TWiki, for which someone wrote a CAS LoginManager, which uses AuthCAS).
So definitely something we need. Btw, we are setting-up some
collaborative effort in order to try and coordinate on packaging some
CAS-related packages for Debian. Just tell me (no need to keep this
bug-report in CC: though) if you need more details.
Also, btw, Sympa package in Debian seems to work with CAS (just did very
basic tests only), which is cool, although with the "old" internal CAS
client.
> Just let me know if something needs to be changed in the code.
Will certainly do that.
> However I don't have a Debian server to build the package ; how can we
> manage then?
It may not be necessary, if someone volunteers for managing the Debian
packaging part.
I think that Debian's policy (or best practices) more or less recommends
to keep the official Debian packaging parts (scripts and config files)
in a separate way thant the rest of the (upstream) sources or the
packages. So there may be no need to keep the "debian/" subdir in your
sources, but instead to keep it somewhere else (probably on a project
hosted on alioth.debian.org, Debian's forge).
Still, there needs to be some formal candidate for maintainance of such
a Debian package (as this #494849 ticket only relates to the need for a
package from a user's perspective).
Of course I may volunteer for such Debian maintainer role, but maybe
Lionel Porcheron would also ? ... Or we would have some other setup
(through the CAS packages related project on alioth).
We'll surely let you know in any case. Stay tuned ;)
Best regards,
>
> Olivier Berger a écrit :
> > As you can see in
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494849 , I just issued
> > a Request For Packaging (RFP) in Debian, for the AuthCAS perl module
> > that you wrote.
> >
> > Appart from the debian package's changelog there seems to be enough
> > already in your SVN to build a Debian package (seems it was a
> > contribution by Lionel Porcheron).
> >
> > Do you know if anyone is already working on pushing an official package
> > for it in Debian ? I couldn't see anything in Debian's trackers, but I
> > may have missed it.
> >
> > I guess it could be interesting to have such a package in the official
> > distribution. Still there would be to find a volunteer maintainer ;-)
> >
>
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