[request-tracker-maintainers] request-tracker3.8 packages?

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:54:52AM +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:

> Jesse has also expressed a strong interest in getting a number of the
> Debian patches commited into RT.  I should really get back to getting
> those submitted.

That would be wonderful, the issue has been nagging me for quite a while.

> My work is in a git repo which is browseable at:
>   http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p=request-tracker.git;a=summary
> 
> Or you can check it using:
>   git clone git://git.catalyst.net.nz/request-tracker.git
> 
> > I'm not sure how much Gerardo and Andrew have joined their efforts, Cc'ing
> > them. Andrew, you'd naturally be very welcome in the pkg-request-tracker
> > group.  Please let us know if you want to get involved.
> 
> We haven't joined our efforts at all.  :)  I saw an email indicating he
> wanted to work on it, but hadn't seen anything further, rats.
> 
> Yes, I'm interested in getting more involved.

Glad to hear this. I see your Alioth account is puck-guest,
so I just added it to the group. That should give you write
access to the SVN repository. Please consider subscribing to the
pkg-request-tracker-maintainers list.

I'm not really enamoured with the current SVN setup (including the
mergeWithUpstream thing and dpatch usage), but it's bearable through
git-svn. I'm open to any alternatives (I think Gerardo prefers hg).

As for the 3.8 packaging, some quick notes:

- the branch_priority for alternatives handling in debian/postinst
  should be lowered a bit. My comment back in r46 says
    - 3.0 : 300
    - 3.2 : 280
    - 3.4 : 270
    - 3.6 : 260

  ISTR the idea was not to break existing scripts for people installing
  a parallel newer version when preparing to upgrade.

- dbc_first_version in debian/config and debian/postinst isn't
  needed anymore

- the check for zero-sized html/NoAuth/js/scriptaculous files in
  debian/rules is obsolete. However, the files should probably not
  be installed, but the package should depend on libjs-scriptaculous
  and use those.

That's all for now :)
-- 
Niko