Hello Matthias,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:30 AM Blümel Matthias < matthias.blue...@krumedia.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I've seen, you made some progress recently on the phpmyadmin-package on > salsa. I've cloned the repository for myself, merged the work from your > personal forks and made another update to 4.8.5 ( > https://salsa.debian.org/blaimi-guest/phpmyadmin). > Cool. > The package seem to work as in "works on my machine" on my local > buster-installation with the packaged dependencies from the phpmyadmin-team > on salsa and tcpdf from sid (with a little fix > https://salsa.debian.org/phpmyadmin-team/shapefile/merge_requests/1) > Thanks for this. Merged. > > I'm familiar with building packages in source-format but not that familiar > with the overhead of quilt-format. > I usually use the very nice helper gbp-pq. I usually prefer proper patches because it makes it easier to push them upstream. I usually don't want to maintain forks :) > My phpmyadmin-skills are also very limited and concentrate on using its > basic features like manipulating table-contents and im-/export. > Coincidentally I know how to work with shapefiles but I have no idea how > they are used in phpmyadmin. > Neither do I. > Does phpmyadmin have any test plans for integration and/or > acceptance-tests to check if its features are still working with the > package installation? (I don't care how long processing of this would take, > we have trainees :p ) > This would be very nice to have, implemented as autopkgtests. Maybe Michal Cihar can guide here? > I also do not (yet) know what twig is used for and how to test it.(I've > read some thing about formatting columns with currency-values?) > TWIG is a templating library. That means the html views are not rendered directly with php, but rather via a less powerful language. The idea, as I understand it, being that views should have little to no logic, and such templating libraries help enforce that rule. > BTW: twig is upgraded in master on upstream. Besides the composer.json > only some twig-cache-generator is touches which does not exist in 4.8 ( > https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/1c097a90eb8430a0445886b1849935e0e3e603bf > ) > > So, what I request is some help in the "political" stuff around the > debian-packaging, i.e. about the todos on getting phpmyadmin available in > sid (and hopefully in buster-backports as soon as it is available), as well > as help in testing the package. I should be able to fix stuff in the > package as long as I know about its defects. > I can help you with that. As my activity has shown, though, I'm not being able to dedicate much time. I can, however, do some testing, and help with uploading. > Is there any way to keep track of the progress in a collaborative way > better than sending emails? I'd propose working with issues on salsa. > Sounds good to me. I have given you access to the team, so that you can push these directly. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
