[Openstack-devel] Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu packages diff for horizon

[Loic Dachary]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments, it is much appreciated. With the customization of the dashboard and the addition of the juju panel, the package introduce functional changes to the upstream package. While I understand this is ok in the context of Ubuntu, we cannot do that in Debian GNU/Linux. Do you think it would be possible to have the Ubuntu specific changes in a separate source package ? That would help us working on the same source package.

Cheers

On 07/09/2012 06:38 PM, Chuck Short wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:27:33 +0200
> Loic Dachary <loic at enovance.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is a detailed analysis of the differences between the Debian
>> GNU/Linux and Ubuntu package for horizon, based on the attached file.
>> I'm cc'ing Chuck as he may be willing to comment.
>>
>> debian/control:
>>  - Different source section. Ubuntu = net, debian = python
>>  - Totally different build dependencies. Debian has much less
>>    dependencies. It looks like the ubuntu dependencies are better
>> than the debian dependencies.
> A requirement for us that we run the tests when building the package,
> so this is the reason why we have more build dependies.
>
>>  - More run-time dependencies for a number
>>    of the packages. It looks like the ubuntu dependencies are better
>> than the debian dependencies.
>>  - Ubuntu does not provide the dummy transitional package:
>>    python-django-openstack
>>  - Ubuntu provides openstack-dashboard-ubuntu-theme package instead of
>>    openstack-dashboard-apache
> We provide a customized ubuntu theme.
>
>> horizon/debian/copyright
>>  - Ubuntu has correct source location.
>>  - Some textual differences in copyrght text. The main diff is that
>>    debian has less text and is missing "Midokura KK".
>>
>> debian/docs
>>  - Debian provides this file, Ubuntu does not.
>>
>> debian/gbp.conf
>>  - Debian provides this file, Ubuntu does not.
>>
> We dont use git as a VCS.
>
>> openstack-dashboard*
>>  - Differences here as debian provide one set of files, ubuntu
>>    another one. 
>>
>> debian/openstack-dashboard-nginx.conf
>> debian/openstack-dashboard-uwsgi.xml
>>  - Debian provide these files. 
>>
> Our default web server is apache.
>
>> debian/openstack-dashboard.post* and pre*
>>  - Debian add a horizon user.
>>  - Ubuntu does not create a horizon user.
>>  - Ubuntu automatically configure it.
>>
>> Ubuntu has the following patches:
>>  - fix-dashboard-django-wsgi.patch
>>  - fix-dashboard-manage.patch
>>  - fix-coverage-binary-name.patch
>>  - add_juju_settings_panel.patch
>>  - turn-off-debug.patch
>>  - allow_alternate_css.patch
>>  - use-memcache.patch
>>
>> debian/pydist-overrides
>>  Ubuntu does have this
>>
>> debian/rules
>>  - Ubuntu installs into:
>>        usr/share/openstack-dashboard/quantum
>>        etc/apache2/conf.d (matching the post/pre inst/rm files)
>>  - Debian package define
>>        etc/apache2/sites-available/openstack-dashboard
>>  - Some difference in the clean rules.
>>
>> debian/source/include-binaries
>>  Ubuntu install some binary files into the source.
>>  They are in debian/theme/.
>>
>> The next step will be to take advantage of the good work done in
>> Ubuntu to improve the Debian GNU/Linux package. 
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>