[tor-bugs] #8506 [Ooni]: Provide OONI packages for Debian

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#8506: Provide OONI packages for Debian
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     Reporter:  lunar   |      Owner:  lunar
         Type:  task    |     Status:  accepted
     Priority:  normal  |  Milestone:
    Component:  Ooni    |    Version:
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Comment (by lunar):

 Replying to [comment:22 aagbsn]:
 > The ooniprobe.conf.sample is read from /usr/share/ooni into the users
 > home directory as ~/.ooni/ooniprobe.conf (where the user can edit it)
 > upon instancing the ooni configuration object at runtime (if that
 directory
 > and file does not already exist).

 Ok, perfect. :) Maybe the `.sample` suffix is what confused me. I would
 probably
 not had doubts if it was `.defaults` instead or something similar.

 > The default value for option "data_dir" is /usr/share/ooni/, which is
 not user writable. If we add a command (post installation) to download the
 GeoIP data, we would also need to change the default path in the config
 file, and each user on a shared system would need their own copy of (not
 version controlled) GeoIP data. Meh.

 So we both agree that both installation is bad (installing the `Makefile`
 is also post-installation). How about a better pre-installation mecanism?
 In any cases, not installing the `Makefile` is good enough from the Debian
 package point of view. I don't know about `pip` or other installation
 methods.

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