First I contacted the debian Maintainer who tried packaging freeswitch once, but because he does not have the time the package has not been touched in quite a time. Until now I did not get any response so I will wait a little further and then talk with the debian quality assurance team.
On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Michael Jerris wrote:
changing all directorys to be debian compliant.
We decided so that it is possible to support many different operating
systems, we would make all our packages use the same path structure
like we do today. To change it would add a burden on us for support
and we don't plan on doing that.
Ok, I was thinking about this about the weekend, I'l have to talk to the debian group as well but I'l have an idea:
to be debian compliant AND to not interrupt with the way you provide your package we could do:
* Implement all packages debian specific (pathes, etc.)
* Create a freeswitch-pathcompatibility package which creates links to /opt so scripts/users which are allready acustomed to your scheme
can have it their way, and the debianers out there which love their debian conform system can simply deinstall / not install the pathcompatibility package and everyone should be happy!
What do you think of this idea?
i really would love to do this officially as the debian maintainer for
the freeswitch project, i already sent the current packet builder an
email but I did not receive an answer until know.
Feel free to toss patches at us via
jira.freeswitch.org. We need to
start getting everything in place for 1.0.5.
Ok, i will doing my first adaptions starting this week.
I hope we can work together and that i will be accepted into this
project which has in my oppinion a very bright future in the telecomm
business!
Thanks. Also, feel free to catch up with us on irc to discuss any of
these issues.