[Webmin-maintainers] Webmin status

[Jamie Cameron]

I'd be happy if someone can point me at some up-to-date
documentation on creating Debian packages the proper way .. it seems
that the docs I used to create the current .debs on www.webmin.com
was out of date (even though they do work).

 - Jamie

On 27/Jun/2007 11:20 Cody Ashe-McNalley wrote ..
> Hi Jamie and Derek,
> 
> I have used Jamie's debian packages.  They work well but do not seem  
> to use debconf for all of the necessary configuration.  I talked to  
> several Debian developers about it, but they (surprisingly) expressed 
> skepticism.  They had a lot of confidence in Jaldhar so his  
> abandonment of the packages reflected badly on webmin.
> 
> I would like to see Webmin return to Debian.  Let us work on the  
> package together and look for a developer to sponsor us.  The Debian  
> community wants more team-oriented development, so we should keep the 
> mailing list activity up to show we deserve help.
> 
> Regards,
> Cody
> 
> 
> Quoting Jamie Cameron <jcameron at webmin.com>:
> 
> > On 26/Jun/2007 10:00 Dererk wrote ..
> >> Hi everyone!
> >>
> >> I've seen that there have been no traffic in this list since September
> >> 2006, so, with the new 1.35 release on going, is there any plan to
> >> maintain new versions of the current branches of Webmin?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Hi Derek,
> >
> > I have actaully been creating and maintaining a .deb for each Webmin
> release
> > that works fine (as far as I can see), and is available from   
> > www.webmin.com/download.html
> > for manual installation. However, I have been getting some pushback 
> > on including
> > it in the standard Debian repository, which I don't fully understand.
> >
> > If you or anyone else could suggest specific changes to the .deb ,  
> > .dsc or .diff files
> > that would make it acceptable to Debian, I would be happy to make them..
> >
> >  - Jamie
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Webmin-maintainers mailing list
> > Webmin-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/webmin-maintainers
> >