Bug#652819: packaging for Debian and possible improvements

[Alexander Mieland <info@linuxcounter.net>]

Hello Antoine,

much thanks for your email. Unfortunatly I have not the time to manage the ppa like I want. I have enough to do with other stuff around LiCo. ;)
If you have enough knowledge with bash scripting and ppa building, then you may of course overtake the whole ppa thingy and manage it.

Your ideas are sounding very good. Would be nice to have that in.

Tell me what you would need from me and I'll do my best to give it to you.

Best regards,
Alexander Mieland

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2011/12/20 Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

Hi Alexander,

I am a Debian maintainer interested in sponsoring this package for
Debian. I have opened the ITP #652819 to followup on this work.

I see you have packaged the script as a PPA on Launchpad, that is a
great start!

https://launchpad.net/~alex-mieland/+archive/ppa

I have looked at the package, and I can think of a few improvements, and
I would like to discuss with you if you are open to those ideas.

 1. it could be interesting to automatically run (through Cron) the
 script on a regular basis
 2. we could use debconf prompts to ask the user for its identity
 3. we could create a sandbox so that the script doesn't run as root

What do you think?

Thanks for the package,

A.

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