[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] z-push packages ready for uploading to NEW?

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Roel,

I think we can go into possible final needed small modifications to
prepare the z-push packages for a upload to NEW.

The technical side shouldn't include any big pitfalls as you use this
setup for a while.
>From the Debian packaging QA consideration we need to ensure the
ftp-master don't find any issues that prevent z-push to enter the archive.

I've taken again a look into the packaging and have only found small
remarks that could potentially concerns the ftp-masters.

The package is so far Lintian clean, but some things may can be more
documented. But no big deals I guess.

> root at x260:/build/z-push-2.3.7# lintian -IE
> warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges!
> W: z-push source: newer-standards-version 4.0.1 (current is 4.0.0)
> I: z-push source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
> N: 3 tags overridden (2 warnings, 1 info)

The (new?) remaining warning comes from a not complete up2date lintian
which probably currently doesn't know about the released policy version
4.0.1.
But the ftp-masters of course know about the new release.
So could you please check (again) if any points are left while going
though the list of changes?

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#s-4.0.1

You could also use the following checklist for z-push.

https://wiki.debian.org/LucaFalavigna/NEWChecklist

We also have three overridden tags and two of them are warnings which
typically the ftp-masters will look into.

> root at x260:/build/z-push-2.3.7# lintian -o --suppress-tags newer-standards-version
> warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges!
> W: z-push-common: non-standard-apache2-configuration-name z-push-autodiscover.conf != z-push-common.conf
> W: z-push-common: non-standard-apache2-configuration-name z-push.conf != z-push-common.con
This two overridden warnings could be explained why the override was done.
I"d write some explanation into README.Debian, z-push-common comes with
two needed webserver config files for Apache2 and by this the suggestion
by the lintian warning can't be used. I also would point in
z-pus-common.install and *.lintian-overrides to the created section in
README.Debian then.

The file README.source is definitely out of date and needs some actual
data. Please prepare some information as content, e.g we use
git-buildpackage for maintenance.
Policy 4.14 will guide you what's expected here.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource

Roel, and one more really important point, Guido and me too are don't
familiar with z-push in deep.
We happily will sponsor a upload but if any bug report or user questions
will appear it mostly will need a person that has enough knowledge (and
time!) to answer such questions or act on bug solving! Are you aware
that this person will and can be currently you?
If you are not feeling able to do this we should not upload z-push to
Debian. For the technically packaging Guido and myself will of course
stay on your side and we'd be happy if you step in as a package
maintainer and so far I can see you are really qualified from the point
of knowing the source for this!

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert