[needs-packaging] dontzap

[Alberto Milone]

[needs-packaging] dontzap
DontZap is an application written in Python which relies on X-Kit and
allows users to set the "DontZap" option in xorg.conf.

URL: https://launchpad.net/dontzap
License: GPL 2
Notes: is used by kdebase-workspace and implements the following blueprint:
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/xorg-ctrl-alt-backspace

REVU: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?upid=4581

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

+1 for the packaging review, looks fine to me.

I’m not quite sure whether we need a separate package just for this, instead of doing the x-kit call in gnome-control-center or whatever the GUI for this will be?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I. e. the blueprint talks about "GUI tools", but current dontzap doesn't have a GUI? is it planned for the dontzap package to grow one, or should that land in some GNOME/KDE control center?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Gnome will have its own GUI while Kubuntu will use dontzap from C++. The patch is already in kdebase-workspace and makes a new checkbox available only if dontzap can be found. Furthermore it checks the exit code of dontzap.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Here's the patch which Jonathan Riddell applied to kdebase-workspace and whose result can be seen in system-settings:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kdebase-workspace/ubuntu/annotate/3.1.1?file_id=kubuntu_55_add_dontz-20090108132319-vrhy3tnzkm6v0iq1-1

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Oh, there's one thing I missed previously: This just ships a script in /usr/bin/, no python modules. So I don't think that this should use python-central, nor ship

  /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dontzap-0.0.0.egg-info

Please fix this, then I'll upload. Thanks!

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Fixed in the new version

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Uploaded, shepherded through NEW, and put into main (which is where you need it, I guess).

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Thanks. Main is the right place.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

This seems to be in universe now. Does it need a MIR?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

In comment #7 pitti said he put it in main.

But for sake of making the paperwork right, here's a MIR for it:
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportDontzap

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Jonathan Riddell [2009-01-28 19:47 -0000]:
> This seems to be in universe now. Does it need a MIR?

I reviewew it with my "MIR eyes", too, and actually I intended to put
it in main (the source is, the binary isn't). It's a trivial package.
Promoted.