ITP: Tangaza -- Mobile phone-based group messaging system

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi,

No idea why I didn't notice this message.

A quick response. I'll try to address other things later:

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:30:08AM -0400, Ian Lawrence wrote:


> > I: tangaza: package-contains-empty-directory usr/lib/tangaza/agi-bin/Nokia/Common/
> 
> Not sure why its seeing an empty dir?

Its'n not empty when you build it?

> > * If you want Python modules byte-compiled, see the standard python
> >  helpers (dh_python2) and the python policy.
> 
> Do we want byte-compiled modules? Also, havent had time to look into
> how to use dh_python2

Please do look into that. It mostly Just Works[tm].

> 
> >  - Should the package attempt to detect the asterisk user? If the
> 
> Postinst detects the asterisk user to determine the permissions (for
> dirs and files) for the tangaza service (which also should run as the
> asterisk user)
> 
> > #include extensions.d/*.conf
> 
> I think it would definitely help avoid modifying existing configs. For
> now i've resorted to appending an include equivalent to the end of the
> necessary config files i.e. nagios.cfg, extensions.conf and
> kannel.conf to limit the modifications I am making on the configs such
> that it can easily disabled in case of need.
> 
> > * Use dh_link (debian/tangaza.links) rather than manual 'ln -s'.
> 
> our tangaza.links file of
> 
> /etc/tangaza/tangaza-sms	/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
> /usr/share/tangaza/media/js/jquery.js	/usr/share/tangaza/doc/_build/html/_static
> /usr/share/pyshared/django/contrib/admin/media/css/*	/usr/share/tangaza/media/css
> /usr/share/pyshared/django/contrib/admin/media/img	/usr/share/tangaza/media/img
> /usr/share/pyshared/django/contrib/admin/media/js/*	/usr/share/tangaza/media/js
> /etc/tangaza/nagios/tangaza-monitor /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
> 
> gives this error:
> 
> dh_link: link destination debian/tangaza/usr/share/tangaza/media/js is
> a directory
> make: *** [binary] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
> debuild: fatal error at line 1335:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -i.git -I.git failed

You need to have a single source and target. * will not do.

But do you really those?

> 
> Am at a loss to know what the problem is here. The only thing I found
> was this bug report
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438601 so perhaps we
> are hitting that.?
> 
> On the subject of errors - on install we are getting this error:
> 
> Starting Asterisk PBX: asterisk.
> Setting up tangaza (1.0-1) ...
> Checking if the database already exists. Waiting for the database root password
> We will now check if the database and user exists and create them if
> not there. Waiting for the MySQL root password
> Enter password:

Is that interactive? A postinst script can only be interactive if it
uses debconf.

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