On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:13:40 +0200
Julien Valroff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Hugo,
> 
> Le vendredi 07 août 2009 à 00:57 +0100, Hugo Monteiro a écrit :
> > Julien et al,
> > 
> > what are your thoughts about having a "contrib/packaging/debian"
> > folder, in the tree, with the debianized structure for deb package
> > creation? Others would be welcomed too, like
> > "contrib/packaging/rpm" or others.
> 
> I am not really for this as the Debian packages are currently
> maintained by a team, which use an alioth project for this (and SVN
> as VCS, but discussions are run to move to git so that patches could
> be sent easily to the upstream maintainers).

My point exactly.

> "My" unofficial packages should remain unofficial until they are
> better reviewed and tested. I have originally built them for my own
> use, but decided to share them in case someone was interested.
> 
> I have however join the official maintainer team and work is being
> done to get up-to-date packages when (or short after) DSPAM 3.9.0 is
> released.

OK, so can I consider you be our the official liaison with debian?
(I'm the one supposed to coordinate with ports/packages maintainers WRT
distro support, releases and security).
 
> Hence, for the users, it wouldn't bring anything (if they dowload the
> sources, they won't use the Debian - or whatever - packages). If they
> want to change the compile options for the packages, they simply have
> to download the source package (as easy as 'apt-get source dspam' on
> Debian, I guess it is quite the same on other distros).
> 
> This would also require to be in perfect sync with the changes
> committed, which would be almost impossible I guess.

Yes. And it would also require us to do all the testing the
ports/packcages maintainers do, which is also almost impossible given
the current resources.

> But it could be good to mention the existence of the official
> packages, where to find them etc. Either on the website or in the
> sources (or both). In case some specialised distributions use DSPAM
> as the default anti-spam filter, it is worth stating it somewhere.

Official packages as is "packages provides by distro X"?

Yes, this is a good idea, I'll add the text for debian if you sent it
to me both in git and the site. Thanks!

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