[Blends-commit] [SCM] blends-gsoc branch, master, updated. ddb04a790479f8d7cd8ff42101575bcca1b61247

Emmanouil Kiagias e.kiagias at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 17:48:37 UTC 2013


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit ddb04a790479f8d7cd8ff42101575bcca1b61247
Author: Emmanouil Kiagias <e.kiagias at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 17 19:48:21 2013 +0200

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-  <appendix id="DevelDescription">
-  <heading>Description of development tools</heading>
-  <sect id="blends-dev">
-  <heading>Package <package>blends-dev</package></heading>
-
-<p>
-If metapackages are builded using the tools inside the
-<package>blends-dev</package> package it can be ensured that the
-resulting metapackages will work nicely with the same version of
-<package>blends-common</package> package.  The goal is to keep
-necessary changes for the source of the metapackages of a Debian Pure
-Blend as low as possible when the version of the
-<package>blends</package> source package changes.  Thus it is
-strongly recommended to use the tools described below.
-</p>
-<p>
-The usage of the tools in the <package>blends-dev</package> package might
-introduce a versioned dependency in the
-<package><var><blend></var>-config</package> package from which
-all other metapackages of the <var>Blend</var> in question will
-depend. This <package><var><blend></var>-config</package> package
-instantiates the <var>Blend</var> in the common registry for all Blends in
-<file>/etc/blends</file>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The version <package>0.7.0</package> of <package>blends-dev</package> uses 
-<url id="https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase" name="UDD"> 
-to generate Blends' metapackages. Currently all Blends' info is stored into UDD. 
-Information such as VCs, description, homepage etc for a Blend can be found into the 
-<url id="http://udd.debian.org/schema/udd.html#public.table.blends-metadata" name="blends_metadata"> 
-UDD table. All the info about Blends' tasks and their package dependencies are also stored 
-into the <url id="http://udd.debian.org/schema/udd.html#public.table.blends-tasks" name="blends_tasks"> and 
-<url id="http://udd.debian.org/schema/udd.html#public.table.blends-dependencies-alternatives" name="blends_dependencies_alternatives"> 
-tables. Having the latter in combination with other UDD tables 
-(such as a table with info about all Debian available packages) 
-provides the ability to check whether a package exists for an architecture or not thus 
-<package>blends-dev</package> can generate architecture dependent metapackages.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The best idea to use the tools provided by the
-<package>blends-dev</package> is to put a <file>Makefile</file> into the
-build directory containing one single line
-
-<example>
-   include /usr/share/blends-dev/Makefile
-</example>
-
-(see <file>/usr/share/doc/blends-dev/examples/Makefile</file>).  
-Users using <package>blends-dev 0.7.0</package> on existing Blends 
-which have more than one releases might encouter some <file>Makefile</file> 
-errors for more info see <ref id="statusdump"> and <ref id="changelogentry">.
-
-Using this <file>Makefile</file> all tools that were contained in
-<package>blends-dev</package> package versions before 0.4.  These tools
-are moved to <file>/usr/share/blends-dev/</file> because there is no need
-to call them directly.  Here is a list of the <file>make</file> targets.
-</p>
-
-<sect1 id="blends-tasks.desc">
-  <heading>Blend<tt>-tasks.desk</tt></heading>
-
-<p>
-This target generates a <package>task-description.template</package> file. 
-The template can be converted to a proper description file that is used in 
-<prgn>tasksel</prgn> to enable selecting the tasks belonging to the Blend. 
-The initial template contains all the needed package dependencies 
-for a Blend. But because some packages might not be available for a(or multiple) 
-architectures the template uses the following syntax when specifying packages:
-<example> package1 [!arch1 arch2]</example> 
-
-That says do not include the package1 in the 
-taskdescription file when arch1 or arch2 is used. 
-When a Blends' <package>orig.tar.gz</package> is generated, 
-the initial template gets converted 
-from the <package>blends-dev rules</package> file to a proper taskdescription file. 
-The convertion is filtering out the packages which are not available for the 
-host's (where the <package>orig.tar.gz</package> is generated) architecture. 
-This make sure that the taskdescription file will not include package which are 
-not available for the target architecture. 
-Finally the file will be moved to the
-<var>blend</var><package>-tasks</package>. All information 
-about Blends package dependencies is obtained from the UDD. 
-</p>
-
-</sect1>
-<sect1 id="debian_control">
-  <heading><tt>debian/control</tt></heading>
-
-<p>
-The <file>debian/control</file> file of a Blend metapackage source
-archive is auto generated out of dependencies that are specified in so
-called <file>tasks</file> files.  The rationale behind this is to
-enhance flexibility about changes inside the Debian package pool where
-new packages might appear and others might be renamed.
-The <file>tasks</file> just define which dependencies the Blend
-maintainer group wants to be fulfilled and the
-script <prgn>blend-gen-control</prgn> using UDD verifies whether these
-dependencies exist in a specified package pool. A 
-package pool can be considered as the packages available for a 
-combination of distribution, component and release values. By default when 
-creating metapackages debian,main,testing values are used to "create" a package pool from UDD. 
-Once a Blends' dependencies are verified the <file>debian/control</file> file is generated 
-according to the available packages. This does not only work for the Debian package pool
-containing the distributions stable, testing and unstable.  You can
-even build your metapackages against a different package pool of a
-Debian based distribution.  This is for instance used to create the
-SkoleLinux metapackages.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-As mentioned in the previous section, using UDD in Blends' tools provides the ability to generate 
-architecture dependent metapackages. Thus the generated 
-<package>debian/control</package> specifies for every task source target as architecture value:
-<example>Architecture: any</example>
-
-Specifying <package>any</package> indicates that the source package isn't dependent 
-on any particular architecture and should compile fine on any one. To fulfil this 
-in case of missing packages <package>control</package> file uses the following syntax:
-
-<example>Depends: package1 [!arch1 !arch2]</example>
-
-If a package is not available for a specific arch, exclude it from it. So the above example says: 
-depend on package1 but not when architecture arch1 or arch2 is used. More info about 
-<package>debian/control</package> syntax can be found in 
-<url id="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/" name="Debian Policy Manual" >
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The syntax of the <file>tasks</file> files which serve as the central
-database for the information in the <file>debian/control</file> file
-is defined by RFC822.  Some of the tags were mentioned formerly in
-<ref id="packageslist"> to explain how the <file>tasks</file> files
-can be used to create the web sentinel pages.  Now the tags that
-influence the creation of the <file>debian/control</file> file are given.
-</p>
-<p>
-      <taglist>
-        <tag>Depends</tag>
-        <item>Will be turned to "Recommends" in the
-              resulting <file>debian/control</file> file.  The
-              rationale behind this is to enable installing the
-              metapackage even if a package belonging to this task is
-              missing for whatever reason.  It also allows finally to
-              remove the metapackage.  This makes even more
-              sense since <prgn>apt-get</prgn> considers "Recommends"
-              as default installation targets.
-        </item>
-        <tag>Recommends</tag>
-        <item>The packages that are listed as "Recommends" in the
-              tasks file should be installed on the machine where the
-              metapackage is installed and which are needed to work
-              on a specific task.
-        </item>
-        <tag>Suggests</tag>
-	<!-- [BA] Why would we suggest non-free?  Doesn't policy allow a non-free
-	     package to specify "Enhances" to avoid this problem? 
-             [AT] I have to admit that "Enhances" is new to me.  When
-             reading policy I think this field is out of control of
-             the metapackage developer because it has to be included
-             by the package maintainer.  I'm not really convinced that
-             this is a good solution - but I would follow the suggestions
-             of others in this issue.
-          -->
-        <item><p>Use "Suggests" for packages of lesser importance that
-              might be possibly useful, or non-free packages.</p>
-	      <p>
-              If a package is not available in the package pool of the
-              target distribution when creating
-              the <file>debian/control</file> file inside the meta
-              package source archive any "Depends" or "Recommends" are
-              turned into "Suggests" to enable a flawless installation
-              of the metapackage. Generally packages are concerned as missing if 
-              they do not exist into Debian main component(default is testing release). 
-              Packages that are specified with
-              "Suggests" will not be taken over to
-              the <prgn>tasksel</prgn> control file
-              (Blend<file>-tasks.desk</file>,
-              see <ref id="blends-tasks.desc">) but only to the list of
-              suggested packages of the according metapackage.
-        </item>
-        <tag>Ignore</tag>
-        <item>The "Ignore" key can be used as kind of "Soft-Suggests"
-              to put a package on the radar of the Blend.  Packages that
-              are tagged with Ignore will not be taken over into the
-              list of dependencies inside
-              the <file>debian/control</file> file of the resulting
-              metapackage neither to the Blend<file>-tasks.desk</file>
-              control file for <prgn>tasksel</prgn> but will be taken
-              over onto the installation medium of a Blend in case there
-              is some space left.  This key becomes especially
-              important for specifying not yet packaged software that
-              might be packaged in the future (prospective packages).
-              This is explained in detail in the paragraph about the
-              web sentinel (see <ref id="packageslist">).
-        </item>
-        <tag>Avoids</tag>
-        <item>The "Avoids" key specifies existing packages that will
-              be listed in the the <file>debian/control</file> file as
-              "Recommends" or "Suggests" but, should not go to a
-              installation medium (CD, DVD, etc.) that might be
-              produced by the Blend.  A reason to avoid a package might
-              be that it belongs to the non-free section.
-        </item>
-      </taglist>
-</p>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="statusdump">
-  <heading><tt>statusdump</tt></heading>
-
-<p>
-This target generates a json file containing the latest package dependencies 
-for the selected Blend. It parses the files from the <tt>tasks</tt> directory 
-and generates a <var>blend</var><tt>_version.json</tt> into a <tt>dependency_data</tt> 
-directory. As <tt>version</tt> it gets the latest version specified in the Blend's 
-<tt>debian/changelog</tt> file. In case the <tt>dependency_data</tt> directory 
-does not exist into a Blend's root directory it automatically creates it.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-A user can also generate a json dependencies file manually 
-using the <tt>tasks_diff</tt> script. The script can be called 
-from a Blend's root directory:
-
-<example>
- /usr/share/blends-dev/task_diff --status-dump --tasks .  --output blend_version.json
-</example>
-If the user does not specify the output argument the script by default 
-will generate the json file under the <tt>tasks.json</tt> name in the 
-current directory.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Note: in case a user needs to generate a json file for a previous release 
-(rather than the latest) to get the <tt>changelogentry</tt> 
-(see <ref id="changelogentry">) target to work, must keep the following thing in mind:
-
-The user must provide to <tt>task_diff</tt> script the <em>root</em> directory of a previous Blend release 
-(through the --task(-t) argument). He should also save the output into the <tt>dependency_data</tt> 
-directory into the latest Blend release providing manually 
-the name <var>blend</var><tt>_version.json</tt> (through the --output(-o) argument: 
-
-<example>
-/usr/share/blends-dev/task_diff --status-dump -t blend/tags/previous/ -o latest_blend/dependency_data/blend_version.json
-</example>
-
-For example if the name of the Blend is <tt>myblend</tt> and the release is <tt>0.2.0</tt> 
-then the json file must have the name <tt>myblend_0.2.0.json</tt>
-</p>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="changelogentry">
- <heading>changelogentry</heading>
-
-<p>
-This target compares the latest and the previous Blend release and dumps the tasks' 
-package differences. It reports the added/removed packages 
-per task (or added/removed task files) 
-between releases. This "report" is automatically 
-added into the <tt>debian/changelog</tt> 
-in the latest relase section under the file's manual changes. 
-In case a previous difference report 
-exists, it overrides it. In case a Blend does not have more than release 
-(initial release) then this target is ignored.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In order the comparison to be properly performed the 
-<var>blend</var><tt>_version.json</tt> files for the two latest releases 
-must exist under the <tt>dependency_data</tt> directory. In case any of the 
-previous files is missing then the target will fail with an error 
-(specifying the missing version_file). The json file for the latest 
-release is automatically generated from the <tt>statusdump</tt> target 
-so it this will not cause the problem.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This changelog entry is a new feature so the problem of this target failing 
-(because of a missing json file) will appear for existing Blends which have 
-more than one releases and do not have a <var>blend</var><tt>_version.json</tt> 
-for the previous release under their <tt>dependency_data</tt> directory. 
-Usually Blend's releases are tagged into the VCs, so the previous problem 
-can be solved by generating the dependency json file for the previous 
-release (using a previous VCs tag). This can be done by calling manually 
-the <tt>task_diff</tt> script (see <ref id="statusdump">)
-</p>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-  <heading>Apt <file>sources.list</file> files in <file>/etc/blends/</file></heading>
-<p>
-These files are used by <manref name="blend-gen-control" section="1"> to
-build valid <file>debian/control</file> files that contain only
-available packages in their dependencies.  This enables building meta
-packages for <tt>stable</tt>, <tt>testing</tt>, <tt>unstable</tt> or
-even a completely different distribution that has valid
-<file>sources.list</file> entries.  The file
-<file>/etc/blends/control.list</file> is used as default for <manref
-name="blend-gen-control" section="1"> and usually is a symbolic link
-(see <manref name="ln" section="1">) to
-<file>sources.list.</file><var>distribution</var>.  It might be
-changed using the <tt>-s </tt><var>dist</var> option of <manref
-name="blend-gen-control" section="1">.
-</p>
-<p>
-<strong>TODO:</strong> <em>Either parse the available
-<file>/etc/apt/sources.list</file> or use a sane <prgn>debconf</prgn>
-question to use the "nearest" mirror.</em>
-</p>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-  <heading>Templates in <file>/usr/share/blends/templates</file></heading>
-<p>
-The directory <file>/usr/share/blends/templates</file> contains templates
-that can be used to build a <var><blend></var><package>-config</package>,
-which uses the tools that are contained in the
-<package>blends-common</package> package, and are useful to manage
-<var><blend></var> user groups (see <ref id="userroles">).
-</p>
-</sect1>
-</sect>
-
-<sect id="blends-common">
-  <heading>Package <package>blends-common</package></heading>
-
-<p>
-This package creates a common registry for all Blends in
-<file>/etc/blends</file>.  Each Blend should put the files that are used
-into a subdirectory named like the Blend of <file>/etc/blends</file>.  The
-<package>blends-common</package> package installs a common configuration
-file <file>/etc/blends/blends.conf</file>, which can be used to influence the
-behaviour of the tools described below.  
-</p>
-
-<sect1>
-  <heading><!-- document type does not allow element "MANREF" here--><tt>blend-role(8)</tt></heading>
-<p>
-<taglist>
-  <tag>NAME</tag>
-   <item>
-    <prgn>blend-role</prgn> - add/remove roles in registered Debian Pure Blend
-
-   </item>
-  <tag>SYNOPSIS</tag>
-   <item>
-    <prgn>blend-role</prgn> <var>add|del</var> <var>Blend</var> [<var>Role</var>]
-   </item>
-  <tag>DESCRIPTION</tag>
-   <item>Add/remove (register/unregister) <var>Role</var> for the
-   specified <var>Blend</var>. If <var>Role</var> is not specified, it's
-   assumed to be named like <var>Blend</var>.
-   </item>
-
-   
-  <tag>OPTIONS</tag>
-   <item>
-    <taglist>
-     <tag><var>Blend</var></tag>
-      <item>A registered Blend in /etc/blends, for example
-      one of <tt>med</tt>, <tt>junior</tt>,
-            <tt>edu</tt> or <tt>science</tt>
-      </item>
-    </taglist>
-   </item>
-  <tag>AUTHOR</tag>
-   <item>Andreas Tille <email>tille at debian.org</email>, 
-   Cosimo Alfarano <email>kalfa at debian.org</email>.</item>
-</taglist>
-</p>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="blend-update-menus">
-  <heading><!-- document type does not allow element "MANREF"
-  here--><tt>blend-update-menus(8)</tt></heading>
-<p>
-<taglist>
-  <tag>NAME</tag>
-   <item>
-    <prgn>blend-update-menus</prgn> - add menu of metapackage to all Blend users
-   </item>
-  <tag>SYNOPSIS</tag>
-   <item>
-    <prgn>blend-update-menus</prgn> [<var>--blend Blend</var> | <var>--user
-    user</var>]
-   </item>
-  <tag>DESCRIPTION</tag>
-   <item>
-   <p>
-   blend-update-menus behaves differently depending on who run the
-   command:
-   </p>
-
-   <p>
-   If it is called by a user, it adds, and keeps updated, menu
-   entries for the user who runs it.
-   </p>
-
-   <p>
-   If it is called by root, it adds and keeps updated user's menu
-   entries (see menu package for users' menus) for all users who
-   belong to the group of the specified Blend, or only for a specified
-   user, depending on which parameter is passed to the script.
-   </p>
-   </item>
-   
-  <tag>OPTIONS</tag>
-   <item>
-    <taglist>
-     <tag><var>Blend</var></tag>
-      <item>one of the installed Blends, listed in /etc/blends/, for example
-      (if installed: <tt>med</tt>, <tt>junior</tt>,
-            <tt>edu</tt> or <tt>science</tt>.
-      </item>
-     <tag><var>user</var></tag>
-      <item>system user</item>
-    </taglist>
-   </item>
-  <tag>AUTHOR</tag>
-   <item>Andreas Tille <email>tille at debian.org</email>,
-   Cosimo Alfarano <email>kalfa at debian.org</email>.</item>
-</taglist>
-</p>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-  <heading><!-- document type does not allow element "MANREF" here--><tt>blend-user(8)</tt></heading>
-<p>
-<taglist>
-  <tag>NAME</tag>
-   <item>
-    <prgn>blend-user</prgn> - add/remove user to Role of a registered Blend
-
-   </item>
-  <tag>SYNOPSIS</tag>
-   <item>
-    <prgn>blend-user</prgn> <var>add|del</var> <var>Blend</var> <var>user</var> [<var>Role</var>]
-   </item>
-  <tag>DESCRIPTION</tag>
-   <item>Add/remove user to a <var>Role</var> of the specified <var>Blend</var>.
-
-   If <var>Role</var> is not specified, it's assumed to be named like
-   <var>Blend</var>
-   </item>
-
-   
-  <tag>OPTIONS</tag>
-   <item>
-    <taglist>
-     <tag><var>Blend</var></tag>
-      <item>A registered Blend in /etc/blends, for example
-      one of <tt>med</tt>, <tt>junior</tt>,
-            <tt>edu</tt> or <tt>science</tt>.
-      </item>
-     <tag><var>user</var></tag>
-      <item>user to add</item>
-     <tag><var>Role</var></tag>
-      <item>the role in the <var>Blend</var> that <var>user</var> will
-      assume</item>
-    </taglist>
-   </item>
-  <tag>AUTHOR</tag>
-   <item>Andreas Tille <email>tille at debian.org</email>, 
-   Cosimo Alfarano <email>kalfa at debian.org</email>.</item>
-</taglist>
-</p>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-  <heading><tt>blends.conf(5)</tt></heading>
-<p>
-<taglist>
-  <tag>NAME</tag>
-   <item>
-    <file>blends.conf</file> - configuration for Debian Pure Blends registry
-   </item>
-  <tag>DESCRIPTION</tag>
-   <item>This file is sourced from shell scripts inside the Debian
-         Pure Blends package <package>blends-common</package> and thus
-         it has to follow shell syntax.  The variables that are set
-         inside this configuration file can be overriden by special
-         Blend configration files
-   <file>/etc/blends/<var>&lt>Blend></var>/<var>&lt>Blend></var>.conf</file>
-   for each single Blend.
-  <tag>SYNTAX</tag>
-   <item>The following variables can be set:
-    <taglist>
-      <tag><tt>DBBACKEND</tt></tag>
-       <item>Set the backend for the user role management system.
-             Currently the only implemented role management system is
-             <tt>unixgroups</tt> but others might be implemented
-             later.  Unsetting this variable leads to use no roles at all.
-       </item>
-      <tag><tt>UPDATEUSERMENU</tt></tag>
-       <item>If this is set to <tt>yes</tt>, the user menus of meta
-             packages can be created automatically at install time of
-             the package if the postinst script of the package allows
-             this.  It is suggested to use this option in the specific
-             configuration files of a special Debian Pure Blend that
-             override the settings of the general configuration file.
-       </item>
-      <tag><tt>SHAREDIR</tt></tag>
-       <item>Set the base directory for the user role management
-             system. While this is more or less a feature for
-             debugging this might be also used otherwise. 
-       </item>
-      <tag><tt>DRYRUN</tt></tag>
-       <item>This variable can be set for debugging.  Normally it
-             should be left unset (<em>NOT</em> set to <tt>false</tt>
-             or anything else!). If set to <tt>true</tt> a dry run of
-             the tools is performed or <tt>echo DRYRUN:</tt> would
-             print debugging information. 
-       </item>
-      <tag><tt>DEBUG</tt></tag>
-       <item>If set to <tt>1</tt> debugging mode is switched on.
-    </taglist>
-   </item>
-  <tag>SEE ALSO</tag>
-   <item>
-    <file>blend-role (8)</file>, <file>blend-update-menus (8)</file>, 
-    <file>blend-user (8)</file>
-   </item>
-  <tag>AUTHOR</tag>
-   <item>Andreas Tille <email>tille at debian.org</email>, 
-   Cosimo Alfarano <email>kalfa at debian.org</email>.</item>
-</taglist>
-</p>
-</sect1>
-
-</sect>
-
-
-<sect id="svn">
-  <heading>Working with the source repository (<file>svn</file> in process of moving to <file>git</file>)</heading>
-<p>
-  Sometimes it might be interesting for developers to check out the
-  latest code of the Blend tools or a special Blend code for the meta
-  packages.  In <ref id="communication"> the directory layout of the
-  <file>svn</file>-directory was described.  How to derive the
-  Debian packages from this layout?
-<taglist>
-  <tag>Checkout</tag>
-   <item>
-    For the Blend tools and this documentation
-<example>
-  git clone git+ssh://<var>username</var>@git.debian.org/git/blends/blends.git
-</example>
-    or for the Debian Pure Blend <var>BLEND-name</var>
-<example>
-  svn checkout svn+ssh://<var>username</var>@svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/<var>BLEND-name</var>/trunk
-</example>
-    Note: This will be moved to Git (at least) soon after Wheezy release.
-   </item>
-  <tag>Build source package</tag>
-   <item>
-    Change into the created directory and type
-<example>
-  make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
-</example>
-    This creates a <file>tar.gz</file> source archive of the packages
-    you want to build.  For your personal comfort you can create a
-    file <file>Makefile</file> in your package source directory containing
-<example>
-  #!/usr/bin/make -f 
-  include /usr/share/blends-dev/Makefile
-</example>
-    Which enables you to simply say
-<example>
-    make dist
-</example>
-    to create the source tarball.
-   </item>
-  <tag>Build Debian packages</tag>
-   <item>
-    Unpack the created source tarball and proceed like you build
-    Debian packages normally.
-   </item>
-</taglist>
-</p>
-<p>
-The current Debian Med packages provide a working example how to use
-the tools described below.
-</p>
-</sect> 
-
-  <sect id="webpagecreation">
-  <heading>How to create tasks and bugs pages of web sentinel</heading>
-
-<p>
-In <ref id="sentinel"> the creation of so called tasks
-pages <ref id="packageslist"> and bugs pages <ref id="bugs"> was
-described. These pages are automatically build by a cron job on Alioth
-from the current state of the tasks files in the SVN repository.
-If you have commited changes to the tasks pages and want to see the
-effect immediately the steps to do are as follows:
-</p>
-<p>
-<enumlist>
-  <item>Login to <tt>alioth.debian.org</tt></item>
-  <item><tt>cd /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/blends/webtools/</tt></item>
-  <item><tt>./tasks.py <blend-name></tt></item>
-</enumlist>
-</p>
-<p>
-To know what a valid <tt><blend-name></tt> might be have a look
-into
-<tt>/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/blends/webtools/webconf</tt>.
-Each Blend has an according config file there.  Leave out
-the <tt>.conf</tt> extension and you have a
-valid <tt><blend-name></tt>.
-</p>
-<p>
-In case you are planing some more experimental changes there is
-another host which was kindly sponsored by Frédéric Hébert for Debian
-Med called <tt>blends.debian.net</tt> which is running a copy of
-UDD and also hosts the latest development snapshot of the Blends web
-tools.  Just ask Andreas Tille <email>tille at debian.org</email> in case
-you like a login on this host.
-</p>
-<p>
-The code which builds web and tasks pages is available in Git at
-<tt>git://git.debian.org/git/blends/website.git</tt>.  It is
-using the <url id="http://genshi.edgewall.org/" name="Genshi
-templating system"> which enables influencing the layout of the pages
-by editing the templates in the
-<file>templates</file> directory.
-You can also influence some parameters of the web pages in the
-configuration files in the <file>webconf</file> directory.
-Last but not least you can provide translations for the web pages in
-the <file>po</file> directory.
-</p>
-<p>
-Once something on the web pages was changed you can activate the
-changes as follows:
-</p>
-<p>
-<enumlist>
-  <item>Login to <tt>alioth.debian.org</tt> or <tt>blends.debian.net</tt></item>
-  <item><tt>cd /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/blends/webtools/</tt></item>
-  <item><tt>git pull</tt></item>
-</enumlist>
-</p>
-<p>
-Please note that the <tt>css</tt> and <tt>js</tt> files which are
-influencing the layout of the automatically created pages are in
-the same area as the static web pages (see below <ref id="staticwebpages">).
-</p>
-</sect>
-
-  <sect id="staticwebpages">
-  <heading>Editing static web pages of Blends on Alioth</heading>
-<p>
-A very simple entry page is created for each Blend which is linked
-from the 
-<url id="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/" name="list of all Blends">.
-Most probably the maintainers of a Blend want to enhance this page a
-bit.  It is actually intended that this simple template will be
-enhanced as it is done for instance for the 
-<url id="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org" name="Debian Med
-project"> which has a quite complex PHP driven web with a lot of other
-features than just linking to the tasks and bugs pages.  Maintainers
-of a Blend should care for this index page which currently is just
-featuring links to the automatically updated pages as well as an image
-which shows the activity of the
-<url id="http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/liststats.pdf"
-name="relevant mailing list">.  Maintaining these static pages is
-not a "service" which is done for you.  The maintainers of a Blend
-should care for this!
-</p>
-<p>
-The static pages are maintained in Git at
-<tt>git://git.debian.org/git/blends/website.git</tt> in the
-<file>websites</file> directory.
-Once you have changed the content of the pages you can activate
-the changes by doing:
-</p>
-<p>
-<enumlist>
-  <item>Login to <tt>alioth.debian.org</tt> or <tt>blends.debian.net</tt></item>
-  <item><tt>cd /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/blends/webtools/</tt></item>
-  <item><tt>git pull</tt></item>
-</enumlist>
-</p>
-</sect>
-  </appendix>
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