Package: gitolite Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Thursday, July 01, 2010, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for gitolite. The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates, and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report. Please review the suggested changes are suggested, and if you have any objections, let me know in the next 3 days. Please try to avoid uploading gitolite with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Thursday, July 15, 2010, when I will coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates. The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will receive an updated PO file for their language. Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to the debian-i18n mailing list. Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with. The call for translation updates and new translations will run until Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or changed debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of course, other changes are safe. On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, I will contact you again and will send a final patch summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates, updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations). Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
--- /home/jona/debian/rewrite/gitolite/gitolite.old/debian/templates 2010-07-01 19:56:02.000000000 +0100 +++ /home/jona/debian/rewrite/gitolite/gitolite/debian/templates 2010-07-12 22:57:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,22 +1,34 @@ +# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english +# team +# +# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask +# [email protected] for advice. +# +# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such +# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers. + Template: gitolite/gituser Type: string Default: gitolite -_Description: The name of the system user to create: +_Description: System username for gitolite: Please enter the name for the system user which should be used by - gitolite. + gitolite. It will be created if necessary, and its home + directory will be used to store repositories. Template: gitolite/gitdir Type: string Default: /var/lib/gitolite -_Description: The directory to contain the repositories: - Please enter the path for the directory in which you want to store the - git repositories guarded by gitolite. This will also become the home - of the former entered username. +_Description: Repository path: + Please enter the path in which the gitolite repositories should be stored. + This will be set as the system user's home directory. Template: gitolite/adminkey Type: string -_Description: The key for the admin user: +_Description: Administrator's SSH key: Please specify the key of the user that will administer the access - configuration of gitolite. You can either give the filename or paste - the ssh public key. Leave empty if you do not want to set up gitolite - in the directory specified earlier. + configuration of gitolite. + . + This can be either the SSH public key itself, or the path to a file + containing it. If it is blank, gitolite will be left unconfigured and + must be set up manually. + --- /home/jona/debian/rewrite/gitolite/gitolite.old/debian/control 2010-07-01 19:56:02.000000000 +0100 +++ /home/jona/debian/rewrite/gitolite/gitolite/debian/control 2010-07-05 13:03:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -14,16 +14,21 @@ Depends: git (>= 1:1.7.0.4) | git-core (>= 1:1.6.2), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), openssh-server | ssh-server, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser Suggests: git-daemon-run, gitweb -Description: ssh-based gatekeeper for git repositories - Gitolite is an ssh-based gatekeeper for a server that hosts many git - repositories, and that needs access control of some sort. Without gitolite, - each developer needing to push to one of the repositories hosted will need a - (Unix) userid and password on that server; gitolite let you do that just using - ssh public keys tied to a single, common, user that hosts all the +Description: SSH-based gatekeeper for git repositories + Gitolite is an SSH-based gatekeeper providing access control for a server that + hosts many git repositories. Without gitolite, + each developer needing to push to one of the repositories hosted would need a + user account on that server; gitolite lets you do that just using + SSH public keys tied to a single, common, user that hosts all the repositories. . - What makes gitolite unique is its dedication: Its primary target is corporate - environments where the ability to restrict who can push to what branch is also - important. It has grown beyond that initial motivation to write it and - acquired several other neat features that you can find described in the main - README. + Gitolite can restrict who can read (clone/fetch) from or write + (push) to a repository, and who can push to what branch or tag - an + important issue in corporate environments. Other features include: + * access control by branch-name or by modified file/directory; + * per-developer "personal namespace" prefixes; + * simple but powerful configuration file syntax (with validation); + * config files (and authority for maintaining them) can be split; + * easy integration with gitweb; + * comprehensive logging; + * easy migration from gitosis.
