Sqlbuddy

[Medhamsh]

Hello,

I am new to the list and intending to package
sqlbuddy (http://www.sqlbuddy.com/) It is a
light weight alternative to phpmyadmin, a web
based database client. It is licensed under
MIT license.

I am following the debian policy for webapps
packaging. Before going ahead, I wanted to hear
the opinions in the team.

Sincerely,

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Post by Medhamsh
I am following the debian policy for webapps
packaging. Before going ahead, I wanted to hear
the opinions in the team.

I have at least one opinion about your message: you are wrapping it in a
strange way! The common usage is to wrap at 72 characters, you are
wrapping at something like 50. :-)

About SQL Buddy, I do not have much of an opinion. Just check it for
embedded third-party code, because this is a common practice among Web
applications, and for Debian these often have to be removed and the main
code patched to use the packaged ones instead. If you do find some
third-party code, you should check its license too by the way.

Did you open an ITP bug report? When you have your package ready, you
may want to ask for review and sponsoring here too. Good luck!

Librement,
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: /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:***@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Tanguy>
| `-' Debian Developer
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[Medhamsh]

Hello,

Post by Tanguy Ortolo
Did you open an ITP bug report? When you have your package ready, you
may want to ask for review and sponsoring here too. Good luck!

I have done the sqlbuddy package and lintian throwing one warning
on the source package(dsc). Still uploaded it at the mentors. Waiting
for the confirmation of subscription from mentors mailing list. Can
I send the same template for RFS to this list also now?

Sincerely,

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Post by Medhamsh
I have done the sqlbuddy package and lintian throwing one warning
on the source package(dsc). Still uploaded it at the mentors. Waiting
for the confirmation of subscription from mentors mailing list. Can
I send the same template for RFS to this list also now?

I think that would be appropriate, yes.
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: /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:***@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Tanguy>
| `-' Debian Developer
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[Medhamsh]

Hi,

@Tanguy, I am sorry. I missed sending it to the list. I have configured
my mail client now to reply to the list. Thanks a lot for a quick reply!

Post by Tanguy Ortolo
I have at least one opinion about your message: you are wrapping it in a
strange way! The common usage is to wrap at 72 characters, you are wrapping
at something like 50. :-)

I realized it after sending the mail :-P

Post by Tanguy Ortolo
About SQL Buddy, I do not have much of an opinion. Just check it for
embedded third-party code, because this is a common practice among Web
applications, and for Debian these often have to be removed and the main
code patched to use the packaged ones instead. If you do find some
third-party code, you should check its license too by the way.

I have observed a bit of this and found that SQL Buddy uses mootools
(http://mootools.net) javascript framework which is again in MIT License.
A Debian package for mootools already exists in the repositories by the
name libjs-mootools. Probably I should include this in the depends and
link this instead of the shipped one from the upstream.

Post by Tanguy Ortolo
Did you open an ITP bug report? When you have your package ready, you
may want to ask for review and sponsoring here too. Good luck!

I haven't yet. Is this a reasonable package to start with for a beginner?
I am too curious in contributing to Debian. Can I go ahead and open an ITP?

Sincerely,
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Hacktivist | http://medhamsh.org

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Post by Medhamsh
I have observed a bit of this and found that SQL Buddy uses mootools
(http://mootools.net) javascript framework which is again in MIT License.
A Debian package for mootools already exists in the repositories by the
name libjs-mootools. Probably I should include this in the depends and
link this instead of the shipped one from the upstream.

Yes, exactly.

Post by Medhamsh

Post by Tanguy Ortolo
Did you open an ITP bug report? When you have your package ready, you
may want to ask for review and sponsoring here too. Good luck!

I haven't yet. Is this a reasonable package to start with for a beginner?
I am too curious in contributing to Debian. Can I go ahead and open an ITP?

Web applications are not, in my opinion, the most simple pieces of
software to package, but this one seems quite a simple one. If you
seriously intent to package it, yes, you should file an ITP, they are
useful for coordination.
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: /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:***@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Tanguy>
| `-' Debian Developer
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[Medhamsh]

Hello,

Post by Tanguy Ortolo
Web applications are not, in my opinion, the most simple pieces of
software to package, but this one seems quite a simple one. If you
seriously intent to package it, yes, you should file an ITP, they are
useful for coordination.

I still have hope to successfully package it and also maintain it longer.
So, going ahead to submit an ITP. And I have one more doubt. SQL Buddy like
phpmyadmin is just a web-client and it doesnt need any database for it to
function. So should it be treated as a simple php web application or like
a database application(like drupal which definitely needs a database in
the back end?) I hope this is just a web application and needs no database
server to be running on the machine on which it is going to be installed.
Please throw some light on me.

Sincerely,

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi,

Post by Medhamsh
Hello,
I am new to the list and intending to package
sqlbuddy (http://www.sqlbuddy.com/) It is a
light weight alternative to phpmyadmin, a web
based database client. It is licensed under
MIT license.

http://groups.google.com/group/sql-buddy/browse_thread/thread/9ce741a34962994d

The latest version is more than one year old, and development is no
more active, there might be already security issues that aren't fixed.

Post by Medhamsh
I am following the debian policy for webapps
packaging. Before going ahead, I wanted to hear
the opinions in the team.
Sincerely,

Mike

[Medhamsh]

Hello,

Post by Mike Massonnet
http://groups.google.com/group/sql-buddy/browse_thread/thread/9ce741a3496
2994d
The latest version is more than one year old, and development is no
more active, there might be already security issues that aren't fixed.

Yes. Tanguy and I found this and decided not to package this. After that
I submitted an ITP against adminer (#658861) and uploaded to mentors.

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

http://mentors.debian.net/package/adminer

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/admineradminer_3.3.3-1.dsc

Sincerely,
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