[Debian-l10n-devel] Packaging for pootle

[Stuart Prescott]

Dear Debian Pootle people,

In coordination with Omar and Christian, I've been looking at the Debian 
packaging for Pootle. I had planned to drop you a few small patches to polish 
the work you had already done but ended up doing a lot more than that.

I believe I now have a pootle package that:

* installs with working defaults straight out of the box
* works nicely for users who want to run pootle with apache wsgi or similar 
rather than just the standalone PootleServer
* works nicely for users who want to run pootle with a database server such as 
mysql or postgresql
* is upgradable from previous releases without data loss

I've extended the use of dbconfig-common and employed ucf to manage the 
localsettings.py configuration file to help with this. Following long 
discussions with upstream developer Friedel Wolff the packaging is also 
strongly encouraging the use of apache wsgi or some other locally-specified 
accelerating frontend to pootle along with a database server such as mysql.
(Many thanks to Friedel who has been very patient with my questions about 
pootle) 

My packaging can be found at:

git (based on the team svn)

	http://git.nanonanonano.net/?p=pootle.git;a=summary
	git clone http://git.nanonanonano.net/projects/pootle.git

source and binary packages

	http://debian.nanonanonano.net/debian/pool/main/p/pootle/

apt-get-able repository:

	deb http://debian.nanonanonano.net/debian sid main
	deb http://debian.nanonanonano.net/debian squeeze-backports main

I have tested these packages with a number of scenarios for fresh 
installations and also for upgrades. I think they're now ready for wider 
testing and some sanity checking from other developers. (If you do install 
these packages, please note that I am not planning to increment version 
numbers on the packages unless the maintainers explicitly ask me to do so.)

Please have a look over the packages and let me know how they can be improved 
and what the best plan is for getting pootle back into Debian. Feel free to 
feed comments back via mail or in #pootle on irc.freenode.net.

thanks in advance,
Stuart

(Please Cc me in replies to the list to make sure I see them)

-- 
Stuart Prescott    --    www.nanonanonano.net
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