Package: inn2
Version: 2.5.0-1
Severity: minor
Hi,
Here are a few remarks for the INN 2.5.0 Debian package.
Incidentally, can't there be an inn2-cleanfeed package in Debian?
* A value should be added to --with-http-dir at configure time.
I see /usr/lib/news/http/innreport.css, which is not usual for Debian.
* inn2-2.5.0/extra/send-uucp.cf is not necessary because INN 2.5.0
is shipped with samples/send-uucp.cf (which is more up-to-date than
your extra sample).
* LICENSE: wouldn't it be possible to automatically update
the inn2.copyright file with LICENSE? There is the problem
every time a new package comes...
* /etc/init.d/inn2:
# su news -c '/usr/lib/news/bin/nnrpd -D -c /etc/news/readers-ssl.conf -p
563 -S'
nnrpd-ssl because it is the right binary name here.
reload|force-reload)
ctlinnd -t 20 reload '' 'init script'
restart)
ctlinnd -t 20 throttle 'init script' > /dev/null || true
ctlinnd -t 20 xexec innd > /dev/null || start
Shouldn't there be a "su news" to execute these commands?
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/inn start|stop|restart|reload">&2
It is "/etc/init.d/inn2".
* Suggests: gnupg, wget, libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl, ${shlibs:Suggests}
Can't it also be suggested SASL mechanisms like libsasl2-modules,
libsasl2-modules-otp, libsasl2-gssapi-mit and others?
* Homepage: http://www.isc.org/products/INN/
Not valid! I see it is also mentioned in <http://packages.debian.org/sid/inn2>
but it is not valid. It is <https://www.isc.org/software/inn>.
* inn2.cron.d:
# also to process queud up articles put there by in.nnrpd in case
"in." should be removed.
* README:
The program 'compress' is not a part of Debian GNU/Linux due to patent issues
with the algorithm. By default, the innshellvars* files will try to call
'compress' if you try to transport compressed batches over UUCP. This will
work if you install the non-free 'ncompress' package. Since it's non-free,
this might be as unacceptable to you as it is to me! If you know that all of
your neighbors can handle gzip, a better solution might be to edit the
innshellvars* files to use '/bin/gzip -9' for the COMPRESS variable. I do
not
intend to change this default to differ from the upstream source.
There is something I do not understand. Why should it be changed in
innshellvars*
and INN::Config (new in INN 2.5.0)? Isn't it enough not to use compress in
send-uucp.cf?
See nnrpd(8) and sasl.conf(5) for details.
sasl.conf does not exist any more.
Kerberos Authentication
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To enable support for kerberos authentication the dependencies of
/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/auth_krb5 must be installed: libkrb5-3.
Isn't it already installed? (It is associated to the inn2 package.)
* /etc/news/distributions is missing. My fault, sorry.
$D$(PATH_DISTRIBUTIONS) should be added at line 80 of site/Makefile.
That's all. Thanks again for having packaged INN 2.5.0!
--
Julien ÉLIE
« -- Ils s'arrêtaient tous les jours à 5 heures,
pour boire de l'eau chaude...
-- Je prendrai un nuage de lait, je vous prie. » (Astérix)
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