Hi people, for several reasons Debian Etch did not include a mantis package, which was sad for the mantis users out there. This will change with lenny and if everythings works out well Debian Lenny will ship with mantis 1.1.2. The mantis developers and I worked hard to make this possible, so there is really an ambition to make this mantis package a really stable one. To achieve this goal I would need some broader testing and so I hereby ask for testing. Everything needs to be tested: From new installations to upgrades, so everybody who wants, can help with testing.
If you want to help you can get the mantis package from here [1]. Before you install it, you will need to fulfill the depends: aptitude install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 libphp-adodb libphp-phpmailer ucf \ php5-mysql mysqlclient dbconfig-common If you need an extra mysql database (e.g. because you don't have a running one), then please add mysql-server to the depends. If you are upgrading, you can obvious skip this skep. But you really should make a backup of your mantis database or even better: Test this on a different machine. After this and after you downloaded the mantis*.deb file, you can install the package, by just using dpkg -i: dpkg -i mantis_1.1.2+dfsg-1_all.deb The debconf part of the package should help you to get the database setup. After this mantis will be available on http://<yourip>/mantis Please test everything you like and report every trouble you have. It would be good to receive feedback within the next 14 days, otherwise its unlikely that fixes can still go into lenny. :( For upgraders: Its especially important to see if the upgrade works and if there are charset problems after upgrade, so please test it with your real data (and configuration) on a second system or so. If you have any questions feel free to reply to me off-list. Thanks for your help in advance! Best Regards, Patrick Debian maintainer of mantis [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mantis/mantis_1.1.2+dfsg-1_all.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]