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Re: Debian Newbie looking for Usefull Tools



Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:01:30PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
The next release of Debian will *not* include Webmin. Unless you plan
to stick with 3.1 (sarge) even after the release of 4.0 (etch), you
will have to compile it yourself.
How come?

In short, webmin is a fast moving target.  They are constantly updating.
The burden on maintaining a Debian package is quite large.  This is
especially true when you consider that the Debian packages were never of
particularly good quality to begin with.  Not to knock on the
maintainer, but it was a bear of a package to begin with.

-Roberto

Thanks!



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