Excerpts from Stefanos Harhalakis's message of mar abr 21 12:12:02 -0300 2009: > > > I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". > > 1. why this package is a native package? i think a normal package > > should be better > It was also mentioned on the last thread so I omit that: > fsprotect is 100% tied to a distribution. It cannot be an independent program > that is packaged for debian or other distributions. The core functionality of > fsprotect is provided by one init script and one initramfs script/hook and > those are depending *very* much to the distribution. I.e the init script must > run immediately after the filesystems are mounted and before anything else is > ran.
Anyway, it shouldn't be a native package, native packages need a new release to fix anything (packaging, typos, etc), also need a full upload for every change. It can be argued if there is any use for native packages anymore, and probably there isn't. So, please, don't upload a native package. > > 3. can you explain why you override the following lintian warnings > > $ cat debian/fsprotect.lintian-overrides > > fsprotect: non-standard-toplevel-dir fsprotect/ > > fsprotect: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends > > fsprotect: package-contains-empty-directory fsprotect/system/ > > fsprotect: package-contains-empty-directory fsprotect/tmp/ > fsprotect needs a directory under the root filesystem to preexist. Most > probably it won't be used by normal users, so this won't be common. In IRC it > was mentioned that it could should use /lib/fsprotect, but this directory is > already used to store a helper script: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1786 2009-03-22 17:32 /lib/fsprotect/fsprotect-protect > and perhaps (in the future) hold other helper scripts too. Why is the script in /lib/fsprotect? Shouldn't it be better if its simply inside /sbin? Why fsprotect needs to break the FHS? > the /fsprotect directory will be used to mount filesystems inside it. 2 > mounts > per protected filesystem will exist in there. > The /fsprotect/system and /fsprotect/tmp directories are required to > pre-exist > at the time initramfs mounts the root filesystem. Then you might prefer to create those directories from a initramfs script. Is it posible to make fsprotect run only as a script of initramfs? -- Saludos, Maxy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
