@MoritzMuehlenhoff can probably help us to understand the constraints we have on debian packages. As far as I understand:

• we have packaging repositories in gerrit (StatsD package as an example)
• we build those packages with pbuilder on carbon.wikimedia.org (accessible only to Ops) or within a VM on labs (the role::package::builder puppet class should setup everything needed)
• git-buildpackage is probably the way to go here
• some other docs...

A working packaging has been put in place by @Pnorman. It is versioned in our git repo. I had it built on copper with no issue. @Muehlenhoff will have a look at it next week before I upload it to our ap repo.

The package looks really nice. The only things that's missing is to switch the distribution from UNRELEASED to jessie-wikimedia before building it on copper.

@Pnorman: If the package is of general interest outside of WMF, you may want to consider to contact the debian-pkg-gis maintainers, maybe you can also maintain the package in Debian under their packaging umbrella.

I'm planning to talk to Bas (sebastic) from Debian GIS once https://github.com/pnorman/osmborder/issues/1 is solved. The packaging is done under the Debian GIS policy so it should should be easy for him to add.

The only things that's missing is to switch the distribution from UNRELEASED to jessie-wikimedia before building it on copper.

Done under the jessie-wikimedia branch

built on copper with:

BACKPORTS=yes GIT_PBUILDER_AUTOCONF=no DIST=jessie git-buildpackage -sa -us -uc --git-builder=git-pbuilder --git-debian-branch=jessie-wikimedia

and uploaded in jessie-wikimedia / main

@Gehel, are we done with the packaging?

Yep, all is good (this task is already in the "Done" column. @Deskana / @debt: is it time to close it?