[need-packaging] SABnzbd

[Sander Jonkers]

SABnzbd is great tool for binary newsgroup downloads. Instruction for installation available on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320475 .

It would be geat if SABnzbd was added as a Ubuntu package.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report.

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Working on it...

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Uploaded to revu: See http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=5953

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Is this is something I can test on my Ubuntu? As I don't see a .deb I'm not
sure what to do.

Sander

On 7/10/07, yamal <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Uploaded to revu: See http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=5953
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
> --
> SABnzbd [need-packaging]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102310
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> of the bug.
>

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Moving back to 'In Progress' until license issues are resolved - is there an upstream bug report we can link here?

[jcfp (jcfp)]

No upstream bug report (yet) - I have emailed upstream directly asking for the licensing details of the templates since the project as far as development is concerned seems to be pretty much a one-man show.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Due to a policy change (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2007-November/002684.html) I set the status to 'Triaged'. Set it back to 'In Progress' once you have a source package up for review.

Some REVU uploads were lost in a re-setup. Sorry, please re-submit.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

yamal, are you still working on this? I'll have a go if not considering that SABnzbd+ 0.3.0 was just released.

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Installing (and thus packaging?) SABnzbdplus 0.3.0 has become very easy:

sudo apt-get install python python-cherrypy python-cheetah
python-elementtree python-yenc python-celementtree python-feedparser
unrar unzip par2

unzip sabnzbd-0.3.0.zip
cd sabnzbd-0.3.0/
python SABnzbd.py

(or 'python SABnzbd.py -b0 -d' to run as a daemon and without browser startup)

HTH

On Jan 17, 2008 12:46 PM, Iain Lane <email address hidden> wrote:
> yamal, are you still working on this? I'll have a go if not considering
> that SABnzbd+ 0.3.0 was just released.
>
>
> --
> SABnzbd [need-packaging]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102310
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Sander Jonkers wrote:
> Installing (and thus packaging?) SABnzbdplus 0.3.0 has become very easy:
>
>
> sudo apt-get install python python-cherrypy python-cheetah
> python-elementtree python-yenc python-celementtree python-feedparser
> unrar unzip par2
>
> unzip sabnzbd-0.3.0.zip
> cd sabnzbd-0.3.0/
> python SABnzbd.py
>
> (or 'python SABnzbd.py -b0 -d' to run as a daemon and without browser
> startup)
>
>
> HTH
>

Thanks, I figured it would be some low hanging fruit for my first package ;)

One question though, will there be any problem with depending on unrar,
as it's a non-free package in multiverse?

[jcfp (jcfp)]

I have had a working package for a very long time; in fact ever since it was first uploaded to revu. Unfortunately, the website templates in sabnzbd at the time lacked proper licensing, and thus no motu would advocate. The upstream author (and apparent copyright holder of the templates) has apparently abandoned the project, creating a deadlock.

I have meanwhile been monitoring alternative templates (nova) to see if these could be used. Now that sabnzbdplus is finally registered as a proper project rather than a random set of (sometimes questionable quality) hacks and has come out with a full release, I will check this one out (looks promising since it includes a copyright statement on the templates) and update my package accordingly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Please stop wasting time duplicating my work; whilst installing sabnzbd for personal use never was hard (as demonstrated above), there's alot more to it when creating a proper package that complies with all the relevant demands.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

> Please stop wasting time duplicating my work; whilst installing sabnzbd for personal use never was hard (as demonstrated above), there's alot more to it when creating a proper package that complies with all the relevant demands.

Chill out, there was no activity on this bug for about six weeks, and I *did* ask if you were still working on it, did I not? I'll leave you to it.

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

On Jan 17, 2008 3:06 PM, yamal <email address hidden> wrote:

<snip>

> whilst installing sabnzbd
> for personal use never was hard (as demonstrated above)

Well, installing SABnzbd 2.5.0 was very hard: one page long
instruction of difficult stuff. See
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320475

Installing SABnzbdplus 3.0.0 is now very easy, as demonstrated above.

Sander

[jcfp (jcfp)]

http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=sabnzbdplus

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Is there something I can test-install with "sudo apt-get install"?

Thanks,

Sander

On Jan 18, 2008 7:53 AM, yamal <email address hidden> wrote:
> http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=sabnzbdplus
>
>
> --
> SABnzbd [need-packaging]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102310
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Yamal,

On licensing, the author of SABnzbd / SABnzbdplus 0.3.0 agrees with
you that there are no licensing problems:

QUOTE
Actually there never was a licence problem, since the original author
considered the templates to be part of the program. Implicitly this
must so because SourceForge requires you to use any other popular open
source licences.
I had aready added an GPL statement to the "Default" templates.
/QUOTE

So, no licensing problems. SABnzbd 0.3.0 can packaged into Ubuntu,
which is great.

If you have something I can (test) install with "sudo apt-get
install", please let me know and I will test it.

Thanks!

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I don't mean to hassle you jcfp, but are you still working on this? We missed Hardy, and I'm very keen to see SAB get into Intrepid - there hasn't been any activity here or on REVU for some weeks now. If I can help you at all, or if you'd like me to take over packaging this, I'm very willing. Let me know.

[jcfp (jcfp)]

No problem Iain. Yes it's still in the works; there's a quite decent package for latest stable version [=0.3.4] on my ppa, and an up-to-date one for the latest test release [0.4.0-beta4] on my pc which will be put on revu very soon.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed in jaunty: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/sabnzbdplus

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Great!

Dankjewel, Wouter.

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

First results: Installation goes OK, however unrar and par2 don't go well:

Last warnings (clear)
2009-02-22 14:07:51,726 WARNING unrar binary... NOT found
2009-02-22 14:17:44,647 WARNING [newsunpack] Missing expected file: blabla.Divx.blabla.avi => unrar error?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/sabnzbdplus says that sabnzbd "recommends" par2 and unrar, not "depends". This results in the warning and problems above. :-(

I would say par2 and unrar are really needed for normal operation of SABnzbd / sabnzbdplus.

Can that be fixed?

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Please don't use old bugs as a chatterbox - file a fresh one instead if you find any bugs.