Bug#964736: ITP: public-inbox -- Mailing list archiver

[Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>]

Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : public-inbox
>   Version         : 1.5.0
>   Upstream Author : Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> and others
> * URL             : https://www.public-inbox.org/
> * License         : AGPL-3.0
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : versatile mailing (list) archiver
> 
> This software powers https://lore.kernel.org/ and also
> http://www.public-inbox.org/ itself. It's the server-side counter part

+Cc: meta@public-inbox.org

Probably better to list https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html
instead of its "homepage" as an example.  Also, no need for
"www.", URLs with Message-IDs are long enough as they are and
I'm unlikely to ever to want multiple IPs/hosts behind
public-inbox.org.

> for b4 that is already packaged in Debian.
> 
> Currently I evaluate it to provide an archive for several work related
> mailing lists.
> 
> Depending on the outcome of this evaluation I might or might not actually
> package public-inbox. But as deploying is easy using debian packages I
> will create at least simple packaging which should at a minimum give a
> good start for someone to pick up from me.

Great to hear.  I'm somewhat familiar with Debian packaging and
debhelper, so I can help.

Fwiw, I've been thinking about providing "make deb-pkg" and
"make bindeb-pkg" targets (identical to what Linux kernel
provides) for end users to build their own packages, too.  It
would be non-intrusive to distro packagers (no "debian/"
directory in VCS).