[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] zarafa-webaccess, rework of the packaging for Debian

[Jelle van der Waa]

Hi Charsten,
 
> I have created a helper script that will create a *.orig.tar.xz from the
> upstream source. Therefore I added a debian/watch file to also getting a
> possible new upstream file downloaded. I started up from scratch whith
> such a created new *.orig.tar.xz.

Ok, sounds interesting I can try to build the package locally again :)

> 
> I was also able to fix the shipped JS files within zarafa-webapp-xmpp,
> the Lintian warning about a shipped tinymce JS file isn't solvable I
> think. Zarafa is using tinymce > 4, Debian is just shipping version
> 3.4.8 so we have to live with situation here.
> 
> > carsten at jessie:~/gitprojects/zarafa-webapp [debian/experimental] $ lintian -IE ../zarafa-webapp_2.0.2-2_amd64.changes 
> > E: zarafa-webapp source: license-problem-bad-php-license debian/copyright
> > I: zarafa-webapp-webodf: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > I: zarafa-webapp-shellgame: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > X: zarafa-webapp-shellgame: package-contains-broken-symlink usr/share/zarafa-webapp/plugins/shellgame/config.php etc/zarafa/webapp/config-shellgame.php

I've fixed this in my fork of your Git branch. This commit should fix it and the other bronken symlink issues below.
https://github.com/jelly/zarafa-webaccess/commit/30350ee8c1629e646dbad6aa025ef7fa3916a932

> > I: zarafa-webapp-pdfbox: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > I: zarafa-webapp-zdeveloper: extended-description-is-probably-too-short

Has been extended by this commit along with some more commits on my fork, but it's not complete yet.

https://github.com/jelly/zarafa-webaccess/commit/23432f825c3a974abe319eabebadb1720f1dae3c

> > I: zarafa-webapp-files: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > I: zarafa-webapp-folderwidgets: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > X: zarafa-webapp-folderwidgets: package-contains-broken-symlink usr/share/zarafa-webapp/plugins/folderwidgets/config.php etc/zarafa/webapp/config-folderwidgets.php
> > I: zarafa-webapp-webappmanual: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > I: zarafa-webapp-statslogging: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > I: zarafa-webapp-feedback: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > N: 7 tags overridden (4 warnings, 3 info)
> 
> As seen there is one error left we have to solve. The issue is still the
> same some days before, we have one file left that is using the PHP-2.02
> license. From the copyright file ...

Ok, I will have to investigate this copyright issue, it's not my expertise but we will look into it!

I think we are making a lot of progress, which makes me quiet happy! Thanks for all the hard work so far!

Jelle

> 
> >  113 Files: plugins/spreed/php/dat/legacy/timezones.inc
> >  114 Copyright: 1997-2003, The PHP Group
> >  115            2003, Baba Buehler <baba at babaz.com>
> >  116 License: PHP-2.02
> 
> This is in relation to the email I've written yesterday.
> 
> Am 04.06.2015 um 11:50 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> ...
> > I also applied your patch from the other mail into a Debian patch-queue
> > as it's modified the upstream source, This patch will go away in further
> > releases of zarafa-webapp with your upstream changes. It solves
> > temporally one reference to the PHP 2.02 license that has to go away.
> > On thing is left, isn't plugins/spreed/php/dat/legacy/timezones.inc also
> > not making go away?
> > This file is left with a reference to PHP-2.02 license. If really
> > needed, isn't it possible to write up a own file that includes the
> > timezones informations? Or better use the timezone basic informations
> > from the system? (Please don't blame if I'm asking shit here. :) I don't
> > exactly know what the code inside the PHP here is really doing, a
> > greping via 'git grep' let me assume it's not used and only needed for
> > backward compatibility.)
> 
> This issue has still to go away, we have to get rid of this PHP license.
> 
> As Jelle mentioned yesterday on IRC he is also working on the symlinking
> for the package zarafa-webapp-shellgame that will probably solve other
> Lintian warnings too so I haven't investigate here much more in deep.
> This is currently also no stopper for now if we want to go into the
> Debian archives.
> 
> [snipp]
> 
> > And one more thing,
> > are you willing to improve the various extended zarafa-webapp-* package
> > descriptions as asked on the IRC? So I could focus my work on other
> > things like linking to other Debian packages that are needed.
> 
> Jelle has answered this question also yesterday, with his additions the
> other Lintian warning about extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> will be also go away.
> 
> Next step would be to get the ZCP suite and the zarafa-webapp packages
> installed to test out if the is still something broken. As I have no
> experience with the ZCP and the zarafa-webapp functionality I think we
> need the help from Zarafa here.
> 
> I have tested the ZCP build only for short time but I was unable to
> build the packages, so right now I'm unable to even test the ZCP
> packages now.
> 
> ---
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert
> 
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