[freenet-dev] [GSoC] Packaging and setup process

[Matthew Toseland]

On Sunday 23 March 2008 17:09, you wrote:
> * Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> [2008-03-23 13:04:52]:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Obey Arthur Liu <arthur at milliways.fr> 
wrote:
> > >  The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the
> > >  software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of
> > >  packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are
> > >  non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package...
> > 
> > It's only an issue since Freenet gets updates so often.  When it's
> > stabilized you can make a more standard package.
> 
> When will it be stabilized? Will it ever be?
> 
> > >  And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron.
> > 
> > Perhaps for now Freenet packages should only be aimed at the unstable
> > branches of Debian, where a regular "aptitude upgrade" is normal.
> 
> What about ubuntu and other distros ? One of the points of packaging is
> to get more users and having freenet only in unstable repository defeats
> that purpose.

The main purpose is to make it easy to install and maintain. That will be 
greatly improved even if users have to vi /etc/apt/sources.list. Apart from 
that getting a proper build process would IMHO be a significant step forward.
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