correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Sebastian Tramp
Hi Debian Mentors, can you give me some good example packages which demonstrate how to package web applications. Esp. I am interested in how / and when to restart the Apache after installation. Currently I am doing something like if [ $1 = configure ] ; then invoke-rc.d apache2 restart fi

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
This is what I would do: add a script (or use the existing one for your framework) to the package that the sysadmin can run that sets up an instance of the app under a sysadmin-chosen URL with sysadmin-chosen filesystem/database storage. Some more links about this topic:

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Sebastian Tramp
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:47:13AM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: Paul, thank you for the links. Unfortunately, webapps-common looks very unmaintained. In 5.1.2 Registering and unregistering an application with web servers of the webapps-common documentation [1] there is the hint to create apache

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Charlie Smotherman
http://wiki.debian.org/Apache/PackagingFor24 On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Sebastian Tramp tr...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:47:13AM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: Paul, thank you for the links. Unfortunately, webapps-common looks very unmaintained. In 5.1.2

Bug#717577: RFS: engauge-digitizer/5.1-1

2013-07-22 Thread Tobias Winchen
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package engauge-digitizer * Package name: engauge-digitizer Version : 5.1-1 Upstream Author : Mark Mitchell mmdigiti...@earthlink.net * URL :

Bug#714466: Update

2013-07-22 Thread Davy T
Package updated: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/polyphone/polyphone_0.8-1.dsc

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Sebastian Tramp wrote: Unfortunately, webapps-common looks very unmaintained. Sadly that is true, you might want to help out with it. Unfortunately there is no discussion on how to reload the apache configuration? I guess the right thing here is to use

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Sebastian Tramp tr...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de writes: In 5.1.2 Registering and unregistering an application with web servers of the webapps-common documentation [1] there is the hint to create apache config files in /etc/PACKAGE/xxx.conf and symlink it to the conf.d directory of the apache.

Bug#717597: RFS: mapserver/6.2.1-3

2013-07-22 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package mapserver Package name: mapserver Version : 6.2.1-3 Upstream Author : The MapServer team URL : http://www.mapserver.org/ License : MIT/X11 Section

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 22.07.2013 22:02, Paul Wise wrote: Unfortunately there is no discussion on how to reload the apache configuration? I guess the right thing here is to use `invoke-rc.d apache2 reload` as per the usual for init stuff. Please refrain to interface with the web server directly when

Bug#706514: RFS: dcraw/9.17-1

2013-07-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:58:52 +0300, Anton Gladky wrote: [Quoting your private mail to me, hoping there is nothing private] No problem, it shouldn't have been private in the first place :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :'

Bug#712982: RFS: peg/0.1.11-1 -- recursive-descent parser generators for C

2013-07-22 Thread Giulio Paci
Il 23/06/2013 19:29, Jakub Wilk ha scritto: How are win/getopt.* licensed? As I understand it, the original IBM license applies only to the code that is copyrighted by IBM. But what about portions that are Copyright (C) 2008, PlexFX? I have tried several times to contact someone at PlexFX,

Re: Bug#716852: Fwd: Bug#716852: RFS: libpam-ssh-agent-auth/0.9.5-2.2 [ITP]

2013-07-22 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:21:26 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: There is probably more to fix, but I spent enough time already Thanks a lot Paul for your detailed explanations. I'll look into them one by one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#717577: RFS: engauge-digitizer/5.1-1

2013-07-22 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Tobias, Thanks for working towards updating this package. (I don't intend to sponsor upload of this package.) Just a couple of brief comments: * New upstream release (Closes: #716732) the new source tarball is about twice the size of the old one because it contains precompiled and