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[Francois Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here are my thoughts (as a Debian Developer) on the packaging of Sahana.

I'd love to see Sahana in Debian and Ubuntu. I think that it would make
installation trivial and would make it very easy to try it out on
existing servers.

The preferred way of adding packages to Ubuntu is through Debian since
most of the packages in Ubuntu (when including universe) are unmodified
from the latest Debian versions. There is a Debian bug for Sahana as
well:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497414

I think that waiting for the 1.0 release before the initial packaging
makes a lot of sense. In addition to that, I would also recommend two
things that could be done now to make the packaging job easier:

1- Go through all third-party code and check that the license is FOSS
(see Debian Free Software Guidelines for example) and that it is
compatible with Sahana's license (currently LGPL).

2- Make sure that third-party libraries bundle with Sahana are up to
date and make sure that if it is already present on the system (lots of
PHP libraries are packaged for Debian/Ubuntu) then it gets used instead
of the bundled copy.

Getting these two issues sorted early will greatly reduce the amount of
time required to produce a package that will be accepted by Debian.

Francois

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