Package: gitolite3
Version: 3.6.12-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I did a normal installation of the gitolite3 package on Bookworm.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
At first, I went looking to see if gitolite3 was properly
installed. Using an installation on Bullseye as a comparison, I
checked for a user in /etc/passwd, and installation in /var/lib,
etc. No go. I then went looking for instructions on what to do
next. The man page is silent. "apt show gitolte3" is silent. etc.
I then scrolled back to the installation, and found this:
No adminkey given - not setting up gitolite. Do a dpkg-reconfigure to setup.
Fortunately, the installation trace had not yet scrolled up off the
top. So I did as advised, and provided a key.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The dpkg-reconfigure worked.
I've installed so many packages over the years that I only examine the
output of an installation if it bombs at the time. I suspect I am not
the only Debian user who ignores the output of a "sucessful"
installation. This installation did not bomb, so I did not examine the
ouput until later.
Please document the requirement to run dpkg-reconfigure in other
locations as well as in the installation process itself.
Thank you.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gitolite3 depends on:
ii adduser 3.134
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82
ii git [git-core] 1:2.39.2-1.1
ii libjson-perl 4.10000-1
ii openssh-client 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u1
ii openssh-server [ssh-server] 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u1
ii perl 5.36.0-7
gitolite3 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gitolite3 suggests:
pn git-daemon-sysvinit <none>
pn gitweb <none>
-- debconf information:
* gitolite3/adminkey:
* gitolite3/gituser: gitolite3
* gitolite3/gitdir: /var/lib/gitolite3
