[tahoe-dev] Debian packages?

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

Hi,

I just subscribed today, quite a timing.

Together with micah, we started to package tahoe-lafs for Debian. It is
based on the Ubuntu one with few addons, mostly coming from the
misc/debian_helpers.

Work has started on http://git.debian.org/?p=tahoe/tahoe.git;a=summary

This will probably bring suggestions about what might help tahoe-lafs
to be better integrated into Debian. Reviews, tests and patches are
obviously welcome for the package. :)
 
Work on the  zfec package is also ongoing, and will start the process to
have it co-maintained by the Debian python team, as they tend to be
experienced in that.

One of the feedback might be to make tahoe ran like a system service
(started by an initscript), and be a bit more compliant regarding the
FHS, i.e having its configuration in /etc/tahoe/, storage in
/var/lib/tahoe/, etc... So far it seems the only change in tahoe that
might help is having a configurable storedir.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:21:45PM +0200, Olivier Schwander wrote:
> Le 18 Apr 2011 23:51, David-Sarah Hopwood a écrit:
> > There is a broken package of foolscap 0.6.1 in Ubuntu, but I don't know
> > whether that's the same one as in Sid. Does the one in Sid cause this problem:
> > <http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1383> ?
> 
> The Debian package has exactly the same issue. Actually, I don't
> understand for now how to have the 'secure_connection' tag installed
> with setuptools.
> 
> I reviewed the complete list of dependencies from tahoe's setup.py and
> found that the pycryptopp is outdated too (0.5.17 in Sid, 0.5.20 needed,
> at least for i386 and amd64). A quick look shows that some works is
> needed to convert the debianization to the new version.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623411
The Debian bts is a good tool to have things moving.

> I said previously that zfec 1.4.22 was difficult to package due to
> dependency on pyutil (which is not packaged) but if we limit us to zfec
> 1.4.5 (>=1.4.1 is needed for tahoe)), it seems straightforward to use
> the Ubuntu package.

We'll publish the sources as soon as we'll get agreement from the Debian
python team.

bert.