Luciano,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Luciano Bello <luci...@debian.org> wrote:
> El Dom 01 Mar 2009, Andres Riancho escribió:
>>     Given that you are the first linux packager, I would like to know
>> if you could write some words about your experience as a w3af
>> packager, a summary of the tasks you performed, some particular
>> experience that may help other packagers, or any other thing like that
>> would be awesome for them and would avoid some
>> head-banging-against-table action ;)
>
> I made two packages:
> w3af: which is w3af completed
> w3af-console: which is only the CLI
> In order to reduce the amount of code in the archive, w3af depends on 
> w3af-console, which is the biggest and main package.
>
> The worst problems have been related with third-part code. I had many 
> problems with licenses. Many of them are fixed now. I needed to remove 
> third-part code from the base tarball because:
> a- they already are packages in debian
> b- the wouldn't be part of the debian for some reason
> You can found an explanation of each exclusion in 
> extra/debian/mk_debian_directory.sh
> OTOH, many external code was included. The license of each can be found in 
> extras/debian/trunk/debian/copyright
>
> I can't remember more issues. But I will be glad to answer if you have 
> questions.

Thanks for your contribution! =)

> cheers, luciano
>
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