Hi Chris,

Chris Knadle wrote:
> > > I would be really happy if I would be able to use p0f in Debian to
> > > inform XP users that their OS will be EoL soon. :-)
> > 
> > For that I needed a package of p0f v3 anyway, so I built one. :-)
> 
> I've been doing the same elsewhere.  ;-)

Sounds as if there is some demand. ;-)

> > I've put a source package and an amd64 package online here:
> > 
> >   http://noone.org/debian/p0f_3.06b-1.dsc (signed)
> >   http://noone.org/debian/p0f_3.06b-1_amd64.deb
> >   http://noone.org/debian/p0f_3.06b-1_amd64.changes (signed and
> >   contains hash sums of p0f_3.06b-1_amd64.deb)
> > 
> > The .dsc and .changes are signed with my key in the Debian keyring.
> 
> Just a quick note about the above: the source package conists of the .dsc, 
> the 
> .orig tarball, and the .debian diff tarball.  I was able to get those from 
> your website and extract them via 'dpkg-source -x'.

The program dget from the devscripts package fetches all three files
if you give it the .dsc URL as parameter and by default automatically
runs "dpkg-source -x" if the signature is ok. (Cc to the bug report
for that hint.)

> You might consider making yourself your own private Debian repository with 
> these packages BTW, which would help both you and others use them.

I've got such a repo (it's on http://noone.org/apt/), but I didn't put
it in there on purpose. The version number is already the one which
will likely be used in the next Debian upload (independent of who will
upload the package), but the package itself is not yet that package:
The distribution is set to UNRELEASED on purpose, too. People who install
this may need to have a look at it when the official package arrives
via APT. Usually that works fine if one package is not from an APT
archive but installed via dpkg -i only.

> I recently did this; the three main options I considered were
> reprepro, DAK, and mini- buildd, and I ended up using reprerpo

As do I and most others, too. Even apt.postgresql.org runs reprepro
IIRC. :-)

> > Cc'ing the original reporter in case the package helps him for his v3
> > use case.
> 
> Thanks much.
> Builds clean in cowbuilder.  Very nice job with the debian/rules file.  
> Likewise with the DEP-3 formatted patches.  ;-)

Thanks for the nice review!

> Just one hint I was given that I'll pass on:
> 
>   - The debian/copyright file could be upgraded to the 1.0 format.  See:
>     http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

Yeah, in comparison to DEP-3 patches, I don't yet know DEP-5 by mind
and lintian doesn't yet complain about non-DEP-5 copyright files, so
the urge to move to DEP-5 is low, at least if I don't have to change
much in in there.

                Regards, Axel
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