Hi,
[Re-adding the Freepto folks to the Cc list. Quoting a bit more than
I would usually do, to help them catch up despite the email
they've missed.]
Context for Freepto folks: Patrick is the lead developer of Whonix,
and has been putting great efforts recently to better integrate his
work with Debian.
Patrick Schleizer wrote (09 Jun 2014 00:55:53 GMT) :
> Maybe I can help a bit packaging it.
Yay!
> I advise against directly using dpkg-divert for config file diversions.
> That may cause issues later when attempting to upgrade the package.
Full ACK.
> In my opinion config-package-dev [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] provides
> a fine abstraction to handle this in a more tested and robust way.
Aye, I've been wanting to try it out for a while.
> If you're interested, you could have a look at the anon-base-files [6]
> package as example, which diverts a few config files. For such simple
> [7] config package, I also think the files structure of the
> anon-base-files package is simpler.
> So if you're interested in my help, I could do the initial packaging,
> i.e. getting files in place, diverting config files... But it would
> be up to you to get the actual ram wipe working.
This would be terrific. I've planned to work a bit on it with
ono-sendai around June 27-29. Do you think you can get the package in
a better shape before?
Suggestions:
* switch to non-native package, to ease maintaining the delta
Freepto, Tails, Whonix and others might have to insert
* standard git-buildpackage repo layout, 3.0 (quilt) source format
* Lintian is your friend
> Could you make the github readme English by default?
I wouldn't mind either :)
> [0] http://debathena.mit.edu/config-packages/
> [1] >= 5.1.1
> [2] with debhelper support (don't bother CDBS)
> [3] https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/config-package-dev
> [4] only a build dependency
> [5] not an install dependency
> [6] https://github.com/Whonix/anon-base-files
> [7] The packaging seems simple at first. Figuring out the config (Thanks
> to the Tails devs!) is anything but simple.
Cheers,
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