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Week 1

Debian Packaging Progress​

This week focused on setting up a clean Debian packaging workflow for Fossology and beginning the actual packaging work using git-buildpackage (gbp).

  • Cloned the Fossology Salsa repository using gbp, including the upstream, pristine-tar, and master branches.
  • Imported the upstream tarball (fossology_4.5.1.orig.tar.gz) via gbp import-orig.
  • Cleaned and updated the debian/control file to list all binary packages properly with accurate descriptions and dependencies.

Meeting 1​

Date: Jul 10, 2025

This was a community-wide meeting with contributors and organization admins. Each GSoC contributor gave a short summary of their progress so far. I shared an overview of my packaging work, including the repo setup, how I’m using gbp, and how I’m building multiple .deb packages for Fossology.​

Meeting 2​

Date: Jul 10, 2025

This was a focused technical meeting with mentors. I walked them through my progress in detail, including how I handled the upstream tarball, debian/control cleanup and PHP dependency setup.​

Planning Next Week​

For Week 2, I plan to:

  • checking composer.json to determine which depends I need to package.
  • creating packages for the depends that do not exist as official debian packages.