* Package name: friendica
* Version: 2.35
  Upstream Author: Mike Macgirvin <mike@macgirvin.com>
* URL: http://friendica.com
* License: MIT
  Programming Lang: PHP
  Description: friendica is a decentral social network that runs on LAMP servers.

Hi,

thanks a lot for packaging friendica! I was eager to try it out, so I got the
source package and built it on a Debian stable box (with some necessary jquery
packages from backports).

Here's some feedback that might be used to improve the package:

- installation of the package went smooth, it asked for the db details, etc.
- after that finished, I found a /etc/apache2/conf.d/friendica.conf, which I
replaced with the apache2.subdomain.conf from the doc examples directory
- had to remove a space in the "order allow, deny" option (between allow and
deny)
- the web interface was available, but it showed the installer (is that
supposed to happen?)
- installer complained about /usr/share/friendica/.htaccess not being
available and not creatable either, so I created the file and made it writable
- instead of continuing with the installer, I copied
/etc/friendica/htconfig.php to /usr/share/friendica/.htconfig.php
- however then apache always segfaulted
- I manually created the database with /usr/share/friendica/database.sql and
finally got friendica up and running

However, some more fixes were needed:
- uploading a profile picture only resulted in a black image, because some
javascripts were not found. I had to create a symlink
/usr/share/friendica/cropper/lib/prototype.js to the system installed
prototype.js, then remove the directory
/usr/share/friendica/library/cropper/lib directory and finally create a symlink
/usr/share/friendica/library/cropper/lib to /usr/share/friendica/cropper/lib

I still found a warning about a type problem in the error log about the profile
photo, so I adjusted /usr/share/friendica/mod/profile_photo.php lines 56-59 to
cast the POST variables to integer values:

                $srcX = (int) $_POST['xstart'];
                $srcY = (int) $_POST['ystart'];
                $srcW = (int) $_POST['xfinal'] - $srcX;
                $srcH = (int) $_POST['yfinal'] - $srcY;

The javascript console still showed an error in
/usr/share/friendica/js/main.js; all accesses to $.someJQuery function or
object didn't work. I don't really understand what's going in there (some
undesired mangling of '$.'?), but I changed all occurrences of '$.' to
'jQuery.' in js/main.js, so that it looks like this

        $(function() {
                jQuery.ajaxSetup({cache: false});
         [,,,]

Then online help didn't work at all (internal server error), I had to remove
the symlink /usr/share/friendica/library/markdown.php and replace it with the
PHP Markdown Extra "markdown.php" from http://littoral.michelf.ca/code/php-
markdown/php-markdown-extra-1.2.6.zip

Finally, everything seems to work :-)

HTH,
Carsten

Thank you carsten for trying out the package!

That is nice!

I see did the friendica.conf didn't work? Did you face some error?

Let me reverify the conf files it was created by tobias

Yeah for now it should get you installer. I'm not sure if that can be
automated may be friendica devs can answer (hint hint Tobias)

Weird I think I fixed in the last week upload to mentors! Did you try
this with which package?

I see when you use web installer it gets created.

Umm.. That is weird!

Uh was the database.sql was missing in installation? I'm not sure what
might have gone wrong.

I thought I fixed these symlinks but alas I need to look again.

Weird I will have look again!

Ok Tobias again you need to have a look! Or is the jquery.js modified by
friendica? I prefer it is not to be modified otherwise I need to
duplicate every other js code base in friendica.

The markdown.php on squeeze that might be the reason. I'm not planning
to target friendica to squeeze as it will be soon old stable.

Wonderful! Thank you for taking time to share the problems you faced. I
will see how I can fix these

Warm Regards

Am Saturday, 23. March 2013 schrieben Sie:

No, no error (except for the whitespace in the accept/deny config). AFAIR, it
contained some comment like "replace this with an appropriate config from
/usr/share/doc/friendica/examples or something like that. So I had a look and
found that one more appropriate for my setup.

AFAIU, it wouldn't show the installer if the generated htconfig.php would have
been copied to /usr/share/friendica/.htconfig.php (after the database tables
had been successfully created). Maybe that would even have happened.

Ahh, I see the problem now. I did get the package on March 19th (UTC+1)
dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/friendica/friendica_3.1-1.dsc

Your new package was apparently made public a little later, even though it was
uploaded on March 17th. At least I get a different dsc file, when I download it
again, now (same version number).

So the version I have installed now, is probably 3.1-1 from 2013-01-13 05:19

All those problems that you thought you had fixed, can probably be attributed
to that.

No, it was there, but somehow it wasn't applied. After I did this manually,
the Apache crashes were gone.
distributions of that markdown parser. One with an "ExtraParser" class and one
without.  Debian (both stable and newer versions) packages the one without the
ExtraParser.

BTW, I found another problem, but I probably need to check whether that's fixed
with the newer version: the cronjob (poller.php) always reports warnings like

PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/usr/share/friendica/include/config.php on line 23
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/usr/share/friendica/include/config.php on line 23
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/usr/share/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 150
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/usr/share/friendica/include/datetime.php on line 456
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/usr/share/friendica/include/socgraph.php on line 357
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/usr/share/friendica/include/poller.php on line 168

(and many more). That's not the fault in the package, but a problem in
friendica itself. The function q() either returns an array (good) or false
when something is wrong. Callers of the function only check the result with
count() and then iterate over it with foreach (which fails when trying to
iterate over 'false'). All these places would need to be changed to something
like
if (is_array($r) && count($r)

Without that, you would get a mail from cron every 10 minutes by default...

Thank you so much for working on the package. Getting such things easily
installable is why I love Debian :-)

Thanks again,
Carsten

I have not seen these warnings lately in mails from my cron job so I
guess they got fixed in ~friendica code. But I'll check the logs later
if any recent such warnings are in there.

so long
  Tobias

I found another problem:

It seems that Squeeze's php is somehow compiled with built-in oauth support.
This conflicts with the (re-)definition of the class OAuthException in
library/OAuth1.php.

The whole thing just doesn't work, in that case. You can verify this by simply
calling the API http://yourBaseURL/api/account/verify_credentials
It should return 200 and a json object with your user data in case you are
logged in. Otherwise it's supposed to return 401.

Alas, with the above problem, it always return 200 (but no user object).

If I wrap the class OAuthException in library/OAuth1.php with '!class_exists'
like this:

if (!class_exists('OAuthException')) {
class OAuthException extends Exception {
  // pass
}
}

it works for me.

Thanks,
Carsten

retitle 651944 RFP: friendica -- PHP/MySQL based decentral social network platform
noowner 651944
tag 651944 - pending
thanks

Hi,

A long time ago, you expressed interest in packaging friendica. Unfortunately,
it seems that it did not happen. In Debian, we try not to keep ITP bugs open
for a too long time, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to
refrain from packaging the software.

This is an automatic email to change the status of friendica back from ITP
(Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen
any activity during the last 15 months.

If you are still interested in packaging friendica, please send a mail to
<control@bugs.debian.org> with:

 retitle 651944 ITP: friendica -- PHP/MySQL based decentral social network platform
 owner 651944 !
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It is also a good idea to document your progress on this ITP from time to
time, by mailing <651944@bugs.debian.org>.  If you need guidance on how to
package this software, please reply to this email, and/or contact the
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org mailing list.

Thank you for your interest in Debian,

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Hello,

We are resuming the packaging of Friendica as part of the FreedomBox
project.

Hello

Are there any updates on the status of this package? Is it still being
considered for the freedombox?

Is there something blocking the packaging, or just lack of time?

thanks

Hi,please did you saw my previous email i sent