"Shiju p. Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have packaged phpbb (a bulletin board program in PHP) and looking > for a sponsor who can check and upload this package. Since am a newbie > in debian packaging I expect some help from the mentor(s). > > You can download related files from http://fm.poundlinux.net/debian/
I'm not an official developer yet so I can't upload this package, but I'm maintaining a similar package so I thought I'd take a look anyway. Here are some things I noticed: * The copyright file is incomplete * You depend on apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl, but phpbb is not Apache-specific. You should support and depend upon the virtual package httpd. * Similarly, the package only recommends mysql-server | postgresql, but phpbb supports more DBs than that. Also, since a fairly typical setup would have the database hosted on a remote server, I would only suggest a database server. * Despite the above apache dependencies, you only support apache and apache-ssl in in postinst and postrm. If you want to support apache-perl too, you should change the debconf template type to multiselect, and then modify your scripts to handle the list that the multiselect would return. * Your use of wwwcommon-config in postrm is hard-coded to use both the apache and apache-ssl servers. This will probably fail if a user only has one of those servers installed. You should use debconf to query which servers the user selected in postinst. * Probable lintian warnings. I didn't run lintian on your package, but it should complain about the lack of #DEBHELPER# tokens. That should keep you busy for a little while. If you want to use my package (scoop) for reference, it should be uploaded to Debian soon. In the meantime, you can find it here: http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them!
