On 07/Apr/2008 04:40 Carr, Chris wrote .. > It looks as if Jamie has given up trying to get webmin accepted into Debian. > Perhaps > he was repelled by the tone of Peter's message: > > "in short it seems you have hacked up a way to build a deb without reading the > new maintainers guide at all." > > Jamie had clearly read the guide, and found that it did not enable him to > create > a perfect Debian package on his first (or third) try. (I can understand his > position: > I too am trying to build my first Debian package, and I'm finding the > documentation > insufficiently helpful.) This kind of treatment of a prospective maintainer > (especially > one who is the upstream author of a popular and widely-used application) is > disappointing. > > I also agree with Stéphane - it would be helpful if this bug appeared more > quickly > when searching for webmin in Debian - e.g. on > http://packages.debian.org/webmin > > Perhaps a friendly DD out there could have another try at helping Jamie get > webmin > back into Debian? I'm sure a lot of Debian users would appreciate it.
Thanks! I would be glad to accept any patches to the packages I've created that make them acceptable for Debian, as long as the current basic installation method is preserved. What I think has caused some problems in the past is the way the /etc/webmin directory is created at install time, rather than being part of the package. Unfortunately, this is necessary as it's initial contents can differ based on the Debian version being installed into .. - Jamie
