Debian packaging: plan (was: Re: Help wanted: Debian packaging effort)

[Christian Seiler]

Hi Christophe,

I'm terribly sorry that I didn't reply sooner, but a lot of non-Debian
related stuff came up. :-(

First of all, reading the email thread back, there seems to be a bit
of miscommunication and confusion here, so I'd like to clear this up
first.



I think we can all agree that it is a good idea to have the -fb branch
in Debian. I also think that your changes to upstream's Debian
packaging are a good starting point for that. I'll post a detailed
review in response to this message later, but the changes are minimal.

My suggested course of action would therefore be the following:

 - I create repositories on Alioth underneath
   https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/linux-target
   for configshell-fb and targetcli-fb.

 - I import the latest release tarballs of both projects + the
   debian/ directory from your pull request there.

 - I add the changes I found during my review. (See my other email
   later.)

 - Ritesh adds you to that alioth group so you have commit access
   there. (You'd need to tell him your Alioth guest account name.)

 - We upload the -fb packages to sid. (With name -fb.) Since they
   have different names as the original packages (without -fb),
   this will not disrupt any users of the original packages for
   now. (We can worry about a transition plan later.)

Would that be agreeable for all?

(Review of the changes in a separate email.)

Again, sorry for delaying my review so long. :-(

Regards,
Christian