[needs-packaging] Meiga

Bug #401173 reported by Wouter Stomp
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Bug Description

Meiga is a tool that makes possible to share selected local directories via web. But that's only the beginning. In fact, the ultimate goal of the project is to serve as a common publishing point for other desktop applications, such as the file manager, picture viewers or music players.

Meiga is lightweight, easy to use, network friendly and also application friendly. It's written in a mix of Vala and pure C code, using existing Gnome technologies to perform its tasks: libsoup is used as a simpler alternative to fat web servers, libgupnp is in charge of doing port redirections if the network router supports UPnP, and DBUS exposes a public API to allow the GUI and third party applications to control what is served. Some advanced publishing features are already implemented, like the feed server that can render an RSS view of a given directory.

URL: http://meiga.igalia.com/
License: GPLv2

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

Changed in ubuntu:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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eocanha (eocanha) wrote :

Hi, I'm the program author. Thanks for considering adding it to Ubuntu.

Meiga already has a "build-package.sh" script to build an Ubuntu package, so it'd be straightforward to include the tool in Ubuntu. If you need any additional advice for Ubuntu packaging, please tell me and I'll help.

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eocanha (eocanha) wrote :

I've published a PPA for Meiga with Jaunty, Karmic and Lucid versions of the application: https://launchpad.net/~eocanha/+archive/meiga

Feel free to take it as template if you want to officially include Meiga in Ubuntu.

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Shayon Mukherjee (sj-i) wrote :

Currently packaging from scratch for precise. So that it matches with Ubuntu packaging guidelines.

Changed in ubuntu:
assignee: nobody → Shayon Mukherjee (sj-i)
status: New → In Progress
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Shayon Mukherjee (sj-i) wrote :
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Shayon Mukherjee (sj-i) wrote :
Martin Rabeneck (cornix)
Changed in ubuntu:
status: In Progress → Confirmed
assignee: Shayon Mukherjee (sj-i) → nobody
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