On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:49 AM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
As a Debian fanboy and also a mailman addict, I'd like to try packaging it in Debian.
Excellent! Do check wnpp to make sure there's not already an ITP for Mailman 3. Note too that there is already a Mailman 2 package, so you might want to contact the pkg-mailman-hackers@lists.alioth.debian.org mailing list.
It seems that if I want to have a good source package, I need 5 repos :
- Mailman
- HyperKitty
- Postorius
- HyperKitty - MailMan Plugin
- MailmanClient
My first question is "Am I right?". And the second one is whould I consider looking into mailman-suite-doc and also have it in the source package?
Yes, those are a good start. I'm in the "separate source packages" camp for each component. Since each upstream does separate tarball releases, separate source packages make the most sense, IMHO. Definitely for core and client. You'll probably want to use 'mailman3-' as a prefix for the source packages, e.g. mailman3-core, mailman3-client, etc.
You'll probably want to talk to some Debian Django developers on the best way to package Postorius and HK.
mailman-suite-doc doesn't have anything in it right now.
Cheers, -Barry