Package: gitolite
Version: 2.2-1
Severity: normal
The included /usr/share/doc/gitolite/README.Debian reads:
gitolite for Debian
-------------------
gitolite is meant to not require root access. This still is true for the
packaging of gitolite for Debian. The package asks for dedicated user
and directory for the repositories on first install, and an admin key
which has full access and can add additional repositories and users.
A potential dpkg-reconfigure of the package could set up additional
dedicated users and repositories with different admins.
It is missing the steps to configure gitolite for Debian.
SUGGESTION
1) Please move sentence "A potential dpkg-reconfigure..." out of
current paragraph to e.g. section "TODO" so that it is not confused
with how the gitolite is set up.
2) Add section "SETUP" with numbered steps how to setup gitolite for
use in Debian. Just running gl-setup didn't do it (see bug reports).
Something like this would be a start:
Explain how to generate SSH key / or use existing key
Explain how to copy that key under name <login name>.pub
Explain hot to create user "gitolite"
Explain how to change to user "gitolite"
Explain how to call gl-setup
Explain what critical values to chnage in setup file. If not
set, the program will display:
***** WARNING *****
the following users (pubkey files in parens) do not appear in the
config file: gitolite(gitolite.pub)
***** WARNING *****
the following users have no pubkeys: user
<... end the rest. How to test that everything is ok; clone admin repo
etc. >
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gitolite depends on:
ii adduser 3.113
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii git [git-core] 1:1.7.7.3-1
ii git-core 1:1.7.7.3-1
ii openssh-server 1:5.9p1-2
ii perl 5.14.2-6
gitolite recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gitolite suggests:
ii git-daemon-run 1:1.7.7.3-1
ii gitweb 1:1.7.7.3-1
-- debconf information excluded
-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/share/gitolite/gl-setup (from gitolite package)
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