Bug#964736: ITP: public-inbox -- Mailing list archiver
Hello Eric,
On 7/9/20 10:15 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> 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
The original mail should have been Cc:d already to there.
> Probably better to list https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html
noted.
> 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.
I don't feel strong here. I doubt that the homepage field will be used
to create a Message-Id-Link from it.
>> 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.
I already have a prototype at
https://salsa.debian.org/ukleinek/public-inbox
If you want to take a look ... I'm nearly sure the list of dependencies
is incomplete.
> 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).
Here I also don't care much, I'd use the official package :-)
Thanks for your feedback
Uwe
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