[request-tracker-maintainers] packaging of RT extensions

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:06:02PM +0200, Kai Storbeck wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> Thanks for the pointers last time. I've been happily hacking for a
> while, and I'm bumping my head again.
> 
> I'm proposing to craft a patch for RTx.pm to:
> a) Listen to the INSTALLDIRS=vendor argument
> b) Fix the DESTDIR bug (all 4 existing packages are hot patching the
> issue or working around it).
> 
> (There is an open pull-request for b [1], but its not merged yet)
> 
> I would hope that we can suffice after this with an easy override
> target, and without the need to override dh_auto_install:
> 
> >override_dh_auto_configure:
> >        RTHOME=/usr/share/request-tracker$(VERSION) dh_auto_configure
> 
> Possibly with a loop to support multiple versions.
> 
> I certainly like the sound of this, but before writing a patch I'd
> like to have a general consensus about these things in general,
> specifically for debians needs.

Hi Kai,

I'm sorry about the very long delay in replying to this; I've been
pretty tied up in other projects for a while, but even so..

In the event that such feedback is useful, yes, this sounds like 
idea, and I'd be happy to review code.

Cheers,
Dominic.