[Typo3-debian] Up to date Debian packages available

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Christian,

nice to hear from you!

> I've packaged all packages for 3.7.0. They are now available from
> http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/debian/packages/.
> 
> Please add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/debian/packages ./

I had a look at it now, here are some suggestions from me:

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Generally, I still dislike some of the conceptions. You provide the packages
typo3-quickstart, typo3-testsite and typo3-dummy. But this way they can
only be installed once.

My suggestion is that you install the files of these packages
in /usr/share/doc/<package-name> and use the site-installer to create an
instance based on these files.

BTW, Ingmar and I discussed the sites philosophy in Kitzbühel. We're
thinking about removing the testsite and the quickstart package but
providing them as T3D files (TYPO3 site exports). So then everything will
be based on the dummysite which is already part of the site-installer in
your case...

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Please mention in the docs that there is a Debian repository which provides
eaccelerator and graphicsmagick packages for Sarge:

deb http://typo3.sunsite.dk/software/debian/ sarge all
deb-src http://typo3.sunsite.dk/software/debian/ sarge all

(There's also a Woody repository which additionally contains GD and
ImageMagick with LZW, etc. But I didn't work on that one for quite some
time - don't know if it's still working...)

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The path /var/lib/typo3/latest was my idea but I don't recommend it anymore.
If you upgrade TYPO3 3.7.0 to 3.8.0 and the latest symlink would be
changed, the site would be broken unless someone manually upgrades the
database in the Install Tool. So I rather think the "feature" is dangerous
than helpful. Can you please drop that?

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Dependencies:

- TYPO3 does not depend on mysql-server - it just needs the client
  installed. The server could also run on a different host, therefore I
  suggest to change the following packages from dependencies into
  suggestions or recommendations:

  mysql-server, mail-transport-agent, php4-gd, imagemagick, gs, diff,
  xpdf-utils, catdoc

- I suggest to remove the dependency for php4-cgi. Use php4-cli instead.

- The indexed search extension of TYPO3 3.8 will support a bunch of new file
  types. Please add them to the list of suggestions as well:

  xlhtml, ppthtml, unrtf

- I'm planning to create a Debian package of ooo_extract which can be used
  to index OpenOffice.org documents. The functionality is already in
  indexed_search but there's yet no Debian package available. I will do that
  later and add it to the Sunsite repository.

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Fixes/corrections:

- Some of the site packages miss some of the directories fileadmin/,
  typo3conf/, typo3temp/ or uploads/. These directories are essential for a
  site installation, make sure they're included.

- What is the idea of using the "execdir"? I see no need for this...

- The name of Kasper is wrongly written (Kasper Skårhøj). Please write
  "Kasper Skårhøj" or if that doesn't work "Kasper Skaarhoj"


Thanks for your work!

Best regards
- michael
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