Packaging Giraffe

Giraffe is the Open Source variant of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform packaged for Debian.

Resources

• Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-giraffe/

• SCM: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-giraffe/giraffe.git;a=summary

• Mailing List: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-giraffe-discuss

• Upstream: https://community.zarafa.com/

Current State

The packages are not available by the Debian repositories, the packaging process is not yet finished.

To Do

• track 7.1.9 upstream instead of 7.1.5
• Debranding:

  • Remove Zarafa logos from Zarafa Web Access

  • Rename the packages from zarafa-* to giraffe-*

  • Don't rename any binaries/directories
    • Should we better rename all or none of them?
    • We still have to provide a place to mention Zarafa (see their license)!

• Fix debian/copyright

• Fixing missed copyright file in package giraffe and giraffe-webaccess

• Fix Lintian errors and warnings
• Review and forward patches against libical, libvmime upstream. For now it seems we can run with the versions in sid.
• Move dlopen'ed libs to private directory

• Remove embedded copies of Smarty, fckeditor via the dfsg-clean branch in git, use fckeditor

• Remove embedded copy of php-webclient-ajax/client/widgets/swfupload/swfupload.swf use of libjs-swfupload instead

• Use Debconf to generate the initial configuration
• Use dbconfig-common to generate the initial database configuration
  • installing giraffe-server breaks without this
• Package/Debrand webapp (which seems possible since it is AGPL3, too)
• Provide licensed in non-free???
• Test full functionality
  • We'd need some Outlook users here, too...

The origin of this list is provided by GuidoGünther in https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/agx/publications/2011-06-debian-groupware-zs.pdf

Debranding/Rebranding

We have currently a re branded artwork made by Renè Heinen. The graphics are used inside the web application.

The main login window.

The graphic on the left side on top.