[tahoe-dev] Debian packages?

[Olivier Schwander]

Dear all,

Since I am very interested in getting Tahoe in Debian (which is actually
blocking for my needs), I will try to make a summary of the current
Debian packages status.

The Debian packages on http://tahoe-lafs.org/debian/ are completely
outdated (2009, zfec 1.1, foolscap 0.4.1).

According to Debian ITP 544338[1], the only missing dependency is
zfec which is available in Ubuntu[2]. This is zfec 1.4.5 but the
package seems to work also with zfec 1.4.22. However, zfec and zunfec
scripts and 'import zfec' crash due to missing pyutil[3] (either with zfec
1.4.5 or 1.4.22). Since pyutil dependency is not listed in zfec control
file, I doubt it is fully functional even in Ubuntu (I don't have any
ubuntu to test).

pyutil 1.8.0 is available for Ubuntu in a PPA[4] and builds on Debian
Squeeze. It's not lintian-clean but problems seem easy to solve (most
time consuming ones are missing manpages). The upstream archive of
pyutil 1.8.4 contains debian/ directory, completely different from the
ppa one's. This package seems to have never reached Ubuntu. However, it
does not build on Debian due to missing setuptools_trial[5] dependency
which is not available nor in Ubuntu or in Debian.

Even as not a Debian developer, I would be glad to help but I do not
know how to start. There is a lot of disparate works without a coherent
structure. Moreover, I do not know the procedure to port a package from
Ubuntu to Debian (but I am pretty sure it is documented somewhere). Even
if most Tahoe users are Ubuntu users, the right thing to do is to
contribute to Debian since Ubuntu considers Debian as its upstream.

Cheers

Olivier

Footnotes:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544338
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/lucid/python-zfec
[3] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyutil/
[4] https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/python-pyutil
[5] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_trial

Le 22 Feb 2011 22:57, Arthur Lutz a écrit:
> Hi Erich,
> 
> Welcome to the list.
> 
> Tahoe is more or less installable in debian. Check out the (probably
> outdated) documentation on how to do this :
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/DownloadDebianPackages
> 
> There is an ITP (intend to package) in debian
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544338 (to make it an
> official package). On trac, you can find a few tickets about debian
> packaging (there are some dependencies missing packages as you can see
> at the bottom of the ITP there seems to be only one left).
> 
> The debian packages are generated by some buildbot clients, see links
> from http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/OSPackages or check
> out the debian link in http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot/ and then added
> automatically to the repositories. But the missing dependencies make
> them incomplete.
> 
> Updating the documentation on the wiki, having extra buildbots for
> other architectures/squeeze/sid/etc, packaging the missing
> dependencies or getting it into debian would be the way forward.
> 
> Arthur - another FreedomBox/Debian fan
> 
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:39 PM, e.waelde <ew.ng7125 at nassur.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > my name is Erich, I'm following the Freedom Box stuff.
> > see
> > http://freedomboxfoundation.org
> > http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
> >
> >
> > Tahoe-lafs is explicitly mentioned as a solution for
> > distributed, encrypted storage. Therefore I'm currently
> > exploring tahoe-lafs on how to set it up etc.
> >
> >
> > I found http://tahoe-lafs.org/debian/ which hosts
> > some debian packages, but not all, e.g. for armel architecture.
> >
> > Is there work going on to get tahoe-lafs packaged and
> > included in the Debian archive?
> >
> >
> > Pointers and comments are welcome.
> >
> >
> >
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