[Webmin-maintainers] Webmin status

[Cody Ashe-McNalley]

Debian suggests using the following:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html

Interestingly, Jaldhar wrote _The Debmake Manual_ in 1997.

Jamie, are you putting the package together by hand?

I last installed Jamie's .deb on an Etch machine (Sarge still had  
webmin).  I have not installed it on my testing or sid machines.  In  
Etch, I had to change the path for several components (I don't  
remember exactly, but it was something like correcting the path to  
smbpasswd and similar utilities).

--Cody

Quoting Jamie Cameron <jcameron at webmin.com>:

> 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 was out of date (even though they do work).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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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