[pmwiki-devel] PmWiki Debian package

[Petko Yotov]

Chris Knadle writes:
> The tarball currently contains an empty directory "pub/css" which the Debian
> package checker (Lintian) complains about, specifically because it's empty.
> I'm assuming pub/css is a "placeholder" directory to give a PmWiki user a  
> hint
> as to where to place their own CSS files if desired.  Is that correct?

Yes, in that directory you can have files local.css, Group.css and  
Group.Page.css which are loaded automatically and let people override the  
skin's CSS instructions, see http://pmwiki.org/GroupCustomizations

But in case of a WikiFarm, PmWiki doesn't use the farm's pub/css directory,  
it uses the field's pub/css directory: where you install index.php, uploads/  
and local/ of the field, also create pub/css/ .


> Lintian also complains that the pmwiki tarball is not GPG/PGP signed.  This
> isn't a requirement, but if the tarball were GPG/PGP signed there'd be a way
> of verifying that the tarball had not been modified (and this can be set up  
> in
> the Debian package to be done automatically), so I'm mentioning it as
> "something for future consideration".

We publish MD5 sums of the released files, see the download page. They can  
be used to test the integrity of the tarball.

About GPG signing, maybe Pm will have some ideas - he owns the server, I  
edit the source in SVN and pack the new versions using sripts on the server,  
so tricky.

Petko