Bug#574969: Debian WNPP - Moodle

[Tomasz Muras <tomasz@muras.eu>]

> The main problem, I believe, is that the package needs to be updated to the
> latest Moodle 1.9.x release.  1.9 was released two years ago.
>
> The second biggest problem, is that it needs to be migrated to
> dbconfig-common.
>
> After that we don't really have a list of problems with the packaging per
> se (other then the bug list), because we were planning on rewriting it
> from scratch.  I would recommend whoever takes it over, to seriously
> consider that option.
>
> Cheers,
> Penny

Hi Penny,

I started looking at packaging latest Moodle 1.9 and have few
questions (I'm not sure if I should be posting them here or is there
more appropriate place).

My plan is to package latest Moodle 1.9 (currently 1.9.8).

I will use dbconfig-common and quilt. dbconfig-common seems straight
forward but I'm not yet sure how to handle update from current package
to the new one that uses dbconfig. I could use any hints here.

I will create a small patch to use libphp-magpierss instead of
magpierss bundled with Moodle. I'm not sure about fix for MDL-7045
being included upstream. What would you do if it's not the case?
Package with the bundled library?

Updating to upstream 1.9.8 should close most of the bugs reported on
http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/moodle.html - I guess I will need to
go through them and confirm.

On which head in the moodle debian git repository should I work? new-sid?


cheers,
Tomek