[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Some questions about packaging

[Iustin Pop]

So I'm looking at packaging the debian etch instance definition, and
there are a few problems.

First, using svn-buildpackage we need to have the orig tarball as a
tar.gz and not just as a simple .tar. This is not nice to fix (we
provide a different tarball than upstream), and from next upstream
version we'll switch to .tar.gz; it's more consistent this way.

Second, I think there should be an ITP first, right? I'll open one. Do
we agree that the name should be ganeti-instance-debian-etch?

Third, lintian/linda warn me that an arch-independent package installs
something under /usr/lib. I don't know a nice workaround to this, except
by extending ganeti's search patch to cover also /usr/share/ganeti/os.

Also, should we make some relationship between what os-api is provided
by ganeti and what an OS provides? For example, ganeti recommends
ganeti-os-api version 4 (a virtual package); ganeti-instance-debian-etch
has a Provides: ganeti-os-api.

iustin