[Bug 928501] Re: Precise will ship totally broken ebox packages

[Clint Byrum]

Hi everybody! Just an update on the status of this.

I've been talking with Christophe (huats) and he has agreed to help
shoulder the load on the review. I'll take a second look once he has
gone over things.

We cannot gloss over the NEW process, as it is in place to prevent us
from redistributing code without licensing, and from distributing
malicious or obviously broken code. Thats not to say that we read every
line, but we do need to verify that proper documentation of licensing is
in place, and that the code is in fact the code you intend us to
package. Imagine what might happen if we accepted NEW uploads without
looking over them, how easy it would be to write a trojan for Ubuntu
users?

That said, since this is a NEW package that is really a rename of an old
one, I suspect whoever does the NEW review will be able to consider that
fact, so it should not be a painful process.

For the future, I would suggest that some Zentyal developers apply for
Per-Package-Upload rights to maintain Zentyal in Ubuntu. Its clear that
you all understand packaging, and this will allow you to keep the
packages in good shape for every Ubuntu release.

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Title:
  Precise will ship totally broken ebox packages

Status in “ebox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Current ebox-* packages are based on the 2.0 version, which is more
  than one year old and doesn't work on oneiric and later because slapd
  changes.

  New zentyal-* packages are intended to replace existing ebox-* ones in
  Universe (eBox Platform was renamed to Zentyal time ago).

  We wouldn't like to see how Precise is shipped with broken Zentyal
  packages when we have made the effort to prepare new ones, see:
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
  server/2012-January/006062.html

  Please, sponsor the upload of the new Zentyal packages available on
  https://launchpad.net/~jacalvo/+archive/zentyal-precise/ and delete
  ebox-* ones.

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