DebPool - Resurrected was a project to revive debpool and to add missing features. For the original project, see debpool. For alternatives, see DebianRepository/Setup. If you want to build packages that go in a repository, see Package build tools.
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See also the DebPool - Resurrected project at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debpool/
Planned debpool features
Refactoring Main Loop
Description: Refactor the main loop to make the application better maintainable. Only call a specific set of other functions from within the main loop, instead of implementing lots of logic within the main loop itself.
State: Discussion
Improve Logging
Description: Improve the logging mechanism.
State: Discussion
Debarchiver like incoming queue handling
Description: Provide different ways of uploading a package, like debarchiver does (with/without changes file)
State: Discussion
GAMIN triggered incoming queue
Description: Make the incoming queue more responsive by using GAMIN (requires a 2.6 kernel)
State: Not yet committed.
FAM triggered incoming queue
Description: Make the incoming queue more responsive by using the file alteration monitor (also usable for 2.4 kernels)
State: Not yet committed.
Multi Arch support
Description: Allow to upload packages for more than one architecture, i.e. i386 and amd64.
State: Solution committed to private branches.
init script
Description: Automatically start and stop the debpool daemon on system startup and shutdown. Evaluate /etc/default/debpool for startup options.
State: Solution committed to private branch (andreas).
Redesign meta data database
Description: Instead of using a combination of DBM hashes and text files (one for each package and architecture), a simple common format (text file preferred) should be used.
State: Discussion
Rebuild meta data database
Description: Implement rebuilding the meta data database from the information in .dsc files etc.
State: Discussion
Create XML report
Description: Let debpool provide a function to create an XML representation of the pool contents, e.g. to create pool statistics, HTML pages showing the packages in the pool, ...
State: Idea