Bug#511715: gallery3 Debian package
Michael Schultheiss, 2011-08-10 10:01 UTC-0400: > The thread at > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27792791 has the > current status of Gallery3 and Debian. Thank you. This explains the unfortunate delay. For your information I had to deal with the exact same problem (license information for third-party libraries and Flash applets) for my package dokuwiki, although it was already in Debian. For the license information I had to track these third-party libraries to get their original licenses, and to find their authors to have them re-license them when it was not clear. For the Flash applets, this appears to be a common problem with no current solution, so I chose to simply remove them (fortunately they were really secondary in DokuWiki) and document how to restore them if needed. Seen you last modifications to the copyright file, I guess the license information issue can be considerer as fixed, although it would be a good occastion to switch to the DEP-5 copyright format that seems more appropriate for complex license information. I do not know if an acceptable solution can be found for the Flash applets. The possibilities I see are: * have the Flash applets, along with their source, accepted by the ftpmaster team even though we have no tool to recompile them; * put gallery3 in contrib; * remove the Flash applets; * put the Flash applets in a distinct package in contrib. Anyway, I would like to say that there is actually a point in having gallery3 in Debian if it is possible. Indeed, people often have a Debian server and want to install Gallery on it, but I do not think the opposite situation (people installing Debian because they want to run Gallery) is as frequent. Thus I think most potential users of Gallery 3 under Debian will first try to use their regular tools to search a package to install, and perhaps go no further when they see that gallery3 is not available (this is where I failed, for instance): going to the upstream website for instructions is not such a common practice amng Debian users. Librement, -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo | `-'Debian Maintainer \_ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#511715: gallery3 Debian package
Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Hello Michael, > > I want to take some news about the packaging of Gallery 3. It has been > several years since this ITP report was filed, and I know you have not > abandonned it since you have updated your package only a month ago. > > However, even though you seem to have a working package (I have not > tested it yet), it is still not part of Debian, and not even in the NEW > queue. I do not know why this is stalled, but could you either explain > if there is some specific reason for that, or ask for help? > > Packaging software is a good thing, but if it is not to release them I > think it is only a waste of time… The thread at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27792791 has the current status of Gallery3 and Debian. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#511715: gallery3 Debian package
Hello Michael, I want to take some news about the packaging of Gallery 3. It has been several years since this ITP report was filed, and I know you have not abandonned it since you have updated your package only a month ago. However, even though you seem to have a working package (I have not tested it yet), it is still not part of Debian, and not even in the NEW queue. I do not know why this is stalled, but could you either explain if there is some specific reason for that, or ask for help? Packaging software is a good thing, but if it is not to release them I think it is only a waste of time… Librement, -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo | `-'Debian Maintainer \_ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#511715: gallery3 Debian package
> /etc/gallery3/apache.conf has the /gallery3 alias disabled by default - > for testing purposes you'll most likely want to uncomment out the alias > and restart apache. Ok, I've got it installed. Some notes: 1) In the current state with the Alias disabled by default, it's not usable after installation and there are no instructions on how to make it usable. Why not enable the /gallery3 alias by default? 2) After enabling the /gallery3 alias it then takes me to the installer, which it should not have to. There's enough information there for the debian package to set it up automatically. A few notes on what we should be doing: - I don't like /var/lib/gallery3/g3data -- it's too close to g2data and is bound to cause some confusion. I think we should just use /var/lib/gallery3 as the directory and not have a subdir. - /usr/share/gallery3/var should be a symlink to /var/lib/gallery3 - The package installer should be doing the install as well. This is as easy as running: php5 /usr/share/gallery3/installer/index.php \ -u root \ -p \ -d gallery3 If you do those steps in the debian package, then after the package install is finished, Gallery 3 is ready to go at /gallery3, which is the desired result. Anything less than that will result in a ton of forum support for us, which is not what we want out of this. Upon upgrade, the package should run "php5 index.php upgrade" after installing new files and it's good to go. -Bharat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511715: gallery3 Debian package
Michael Schultheiss wrote: > Bharat Mediratta wrote: > > Thanks, Michael. Roughly when will it show up in unstable? I'd love to > > test it out. > > Normally it takes about a week but since the new stable release is > coming out shortly, it may take a bit longer. I'll get the package > uploaded to people.debian.org this afternoon. While awaiting the gallery3 package's migration into Debian Unstable, packages can be obtained from my people.debian.org repository. To access the package: 1. Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gallery3.list deb http://people.debian.org/~schultmc/debian unstable/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~schultmc/debian unstable/ 2. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys 9EC002FE1C9CA517 3. sudo apt-get update 4. sudo apt-get install gallery3 /etc/gallery3/apache.conf has the /gallery3 alias disabled by default - for testing purposes you'll most likely want to uncomment out the alias and restart apache. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
