Hello Eric, On 7/9/20 10:15 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Uwe Kleine-König <uklei...@debian.org> wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Uwe Kleine-König <uklei...@debian.org> >> >> * Package name : public-inbox >> Version : 1.5.0 >> Upstream Author : Eric Wong <e...@yhbt.net> and others >> * URL : https://www.public-inbox.org/ >> * License : AGPL-3.0 >> Programming Lang: Perl >> Description : versatile mailing (list) archiver >> >> This software powers https://lore.kernel.org/ and also >> http://www.public-inbox.org/ itself. It's the server-side counter part > > +Cc: m...@public-inbox.org
The original mail should have been Cc:d already to there. > Probably better to list https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html noted. > instead of its "homepage" as an example. Also, no need for > "www.", URLs with Message-IDs are long enough as they are and > I'm unlikely to ever to want multiple IPs/hosts behind > public-inbox.org. I don't feel strong here. I doubt that the homepage field will be used to create a Message-Id-Link from it. >> for b4 that is already packaged in Debian. >> >> Currently I evaluate it to provide an archive for several work related >> mailing lists. >> >> Depending on the outcome of this evaluation I might or might not actually >> package public-inbox. But as deploying is easy using debian packages I >> will create at least simple packaging which should at a minimum give a >> good start for someone to pick up from me. > > Great to hear. I'm somewhat familiar with Debian packaging and > debhelper, so I can help. I already have a prototype at https://salsa.debian.org/ukleinek/public-inbox If you want to take a look ... I'm nearly sure the list of dependencies is incomplete. > Fwiw, I've been thinking about providing "make deb-pkg" and > "make bindeb-pkg" targets (identical to what Linux kernel > provides) for end users to build their own packages, too. It > would be non-intrusive to distro packagers (no "debian/" > directory in VCS). Here I also don't care much, I'd use the official package :-) Thanks for your feedback Uwe
