On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 14:53, Thomas Mortagne 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Can you make it dependent on PostgreSQL as well instead?
>>
>> Yes should be pretty easy to do.
>>
>> > How long till it becomes standardly distributed in debians?
>>
>> A very long time (if not never) I think: the blocker here is that to
>> be in the standard debian repository all our dependency should have
>> their own debian package on which xwiki debian package depends. That's
>> petty much why you don't find much java soft in debian package.
>>
>
> There is not only the main debian distrib, see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x169.html for the
> rules, and more largely
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/index.html.
> If you follow these rules, and IMO you should, there is no reason not to
> submit the package to debian at least in contrib...
> or if not, could you tell what is precisely blocking ?
> If there is some real blocker have you check if ubuntu (which more relaxed)
> is a better option ?
> I really see an opportunity here if the package goes in, many debian/ubuntu
> users only adopt official packages.

I never said I was against it, again the rule I described is for the
offical main debian repository and of course there is more relaxed
repositories staring with our own.

>
> Denis
>
>
>> >
>> > paul
>> >
>> >
>> > Le 10 août 2011 à 14:43, Thomas Mortagne a écrit :
>> >
>> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Thomas Mortagne
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> Hi devs,
>> >>>
>> >>> I started with Guillaume Fenollar last week to do an experiment on an
>> >>> XWiki debian package.
>> >>>
>> >>> We got something pretty nice and I cleaned it up and added some
>> >>> features today. You can see it on
>> >>> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-debian.
>> >>
>> >> Forgot to give some more details about it: the idea is to provide a
>> >> production oriented debian package which mean it's not a simple
>> >> repackaging of the jetty/hsqldb ready to use package but a tomcat and
>> >> mysql based package. It install XWiki on tomcat and create the proper
>> >> MySQL database.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> With my latest commit I think it's now clean enough to be moved on
>> >>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform.
>> >>>
>> >>> WDYT ?
>> >>>
>> >>> Here is my +1
>> >>>
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