[request-tracker-maintainers] packaging of RT extensions

[Kai Storbeck]

On 2015-04-25 01:27, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:33:27PM +0200, Kai Storbeck wrote:
>> I already wrote up some patches in June, but didn't publish it 
>> anywhere.
>> I've just pushed it to my github repo [1]. I made 2 branches:
>>  * honour-destdir-variable
>>  * support-vendorlib
>> 
>> As I stated earlier, the first (honour-destdir-variable) is already
>> filed upstream [2].
>> 
>> Its the second patch I'd definately like to get some input on:
>> support-vendorlib.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To reopen this issue from a long time ago, I went through the same old
> pain packaging a new extension today, so went ahead and rebased your
> patch against the current Module-Install-RTx and filed a pull request
> as well as pinging the DESTDIR PR.
> 
> https://github.com/bestpractical/module-install-rtx/pulls
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominic.

Many many thanks!

I've pinged them on IRC today, as they still didn't respond to either 
PR. It is a bit unclear how Bestpractical likes to get their opensource 
contributions.

And yes, these mails only get my attention when I need to add an 
upstream plugin that doesn't have an existing debian package.. Sorry :-/



Anyways, I was looking into ways to make a package insert initialdata 
into its db (and/or apply updates to it). Any recommendations on 
reading? I see request-tracker4 uses db-config, would that be the 
preferred way?

Cheers
Kai