[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] zarafa-7.2.1 RC1 released

[Mark Dufour]

hi guys,

> Yes, this already comes up while Debconf. I fully agree here, not only
> to make the FTP guys happy, but to tear down also complexity for us too.
> The package count at all should be small as possible.

hmm, I'm slightly confused now, as much of the splitting was done to satisfy lintian errors, and I think also from the SUSE side this seemed preferrable. I actually agree with you guys personally that a bit of bundling would be nice, but thought, okay, splitting up is probably just the debian/open source way..? :P

but if you ask me, the zcp-common split does seem overkill. does putting them together mean we have to suppress the respective lintian errors, or is there a nicer way around those..?

also, the zarafa-server package should probably just include libserver, libszarafa-soapserver.. and zarafa-client include libzarafa-soapclient.. again no idea if this means we have to suppress lintian errors though?

I guess doing these two merges would clean up quite a few packages already. as for libmapi, libicalmapi, libinetmapi.. I guess those could theoretically be useful separately. 

hmm, oh yeah, perhaps zarafa-ical could also include libical-zarafa.

we might be able to make some package changes on our side again, for 7.2.2, probably to be released in about 6 months or so. but this will require some discussion..

> > Handling of security updates
> > ============================
> > With the LTS team in Debian we now support packages for 5 years. It's
> > always a pity if we have to end security support before that due to
> > lack of upstream support. So I wonder: once we have a version in a
> > Debian stable release will zarafa support the security team in
> > backporting fixes to these versions?

once zarafa makes it into the main repo, I think there should be people here, like jelle and I, that would be interested in helping out with this. I will discuss with management if this cane be made a bit more formal perhaps.

> > zarafa-search
> > =============
> > If there are issues running as non root in 7.2.1 should we skip it for
> > the initial upload. We can easily readd it once the dust has settled
> > (once we're through the NEW queue).

as mentioned, moving to /var/run/zarafa should make this problem go away.. :-)

I hope to reply to some other points shortly, but thanks for the work you guys have been doing over the weekend! 

cheers,
mark.