Trying to create official Debian packages, https://bugs.debian.org/641768

[alexmyczko]

Environment

• OS: Debian sid
• web-greeter version: 3.1.0

Bug description

make fails

Steps to reproduce

Download tar.gz; tar xzvf the.tar.gz; cd */
make

Expected behavior

It builds.

Screenshots

sed: can't read /var/www/debian/web-greeter/web-greeter-3.1.0/build/dist/web-greeter.yml: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:45: _apply_config] Error 2

[JezerM]

I see the problem, the first make target is not what it's supposed to be. For now, you could use make build or make install instead.

[alexmyczko]

will you unbundle all the fonts or will they stay? it will take me some time to write the debian/copyright and repackage the source tarball to fit debian. but i hope/plan to have it in so pink debian can have it with 22.04.

[JezerM]

Would there be any inconvenience with keeping the fonts?

[alexmyczko]

well yes most likely all the fonts already exist so matter of depends/build-depends. but the main thing is writing the debian/copyright file. the advantage to not ship it is: easier to update the font and no "code" duplication.

[alexmyczko]

I see the problem, the first make target is not what it's supposed to be. For now, you could use make build or make install instead.

web-greeter-3.1.0# make build
./build/utils.sh clean
./build/utils.sh build-init
./build/utils.sh build /usr
Building web-greeter with cx_freeze...
setup.py log inside /var/www/debian/web-greeter/NOTGOOD/web-greeter-3.1.0/build/setup_log
mv: cannot stat '/var/www/debian/web-greeter/NOTGOOD/web-greeter-3.1.0/build/web-greeter/dist/*': No
such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:65: build] Error 1

can it be built without cx_freeze?

[JezerM]

It can be built without cx_freeze. Use build_old or install_old, but these methods use a "zip build": compress everything inside a zip and use it as a python3 program. The main downside is dependencies, as you can't remove a single dependencie without breaking web-greeter; therefore, it's not static.

cx_freeze was the first tool that kind of solved this problem, so I used it.

[alexmyczko]

can you confirm that web-greeter is only useful together with lightdm? or can it be used without lightdm?

my eyes:

./build/utils.sh:	mkdir -p "${INSTALL_ROOT}"/opt/web-greeter
./build/utils.sh:	mv "${BUILD_DIR}/${PKGNAME}"/dist/* "${INSTALL_ROOT}"/opt/web-greeter/
./build/utils.sh:	ln -sf "${DESTDIR}"/opt/web-greeter/web-greeter "${DESTDIR}"/usr/bin/web-greeter

really, we don't touch /opt, and .desktop files have Exec=binary (no paths)

[alexmyczko]

ok a first untested version is available at http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/web-greeter/

it is not installing any config files though

[JezerM]

can you confirm that web-greeter is only useful together with lightdm? or can it be used without lightdm?

No, it's not usable or useful without lightdm. Although, you can use it as a lock-screen with light-locker, or inside a desktop environment without lightdm as a program but as a service, using X-LightDM-Allow-Greeter=true in your xsession.

my eyes:

xd

./build/utils.sh:	mkdir -p "${INSTALL_ROOT}"/opt/web-greeter
./build/utils.sh:	mv "${BUILD_DIR}/${PKGNAME}"/dist/* "${INSTALL_ROOT}"/opt/web-greeter/
./build/utils.sh:	ln -sf "${DESTDIR}"/opt/web-greeter/web-greeter "${DESTDIR}"/usr/bin/web-greeter

really, we don't touch /opt, and .desktop files have Exec=binary (no paths)

Really? As I didn't find a way to build everything into a single binary (without zip build), I thought moving it inside /opt should be ok, as other programs do.

Also, as you may have noticed, there are two .desktop files. One for /usr/share/applications, for "normal" usage inside a desktop environment; mainly for development usage, and therefore expendable. And another for /usr/share/xgreeters/ to run the greeter with lightdm, which is a requirement.

[alexmyczko]

i have to fix all the yellows and reds: https://mentors.debian.net/package/web-greeter/

[alexmyczko]

if you want to fix usr/share/web-greeter/themes/dracula/assets/window-blurred.png (is JPEG)

and maybe package-contains-empty-directory
usr/share/bash-completion/completions/

and maybe you want to add and imrpove
http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/web-greeter/web-greeter-3.1.0/debian/web-greeter.1

[JezerM]

Fixed some errors with local lintian in ee0b983, except for no-changelog and no-copyright-file ones. About the font warnings, I guess there is no easy way to solve it, as the themes could require them with a relative path; perhaps, using a symlink from _vendors to the real font path.