Bug#78855: intermezzo/intersync packaging

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>]

Note that I haven't had the ITP open for 2 years; Tommi opened the ITP
for the original Intermezzo (which used perl, and would've been hell to
package).  I took over the ITP (for InterSync) 4 months ago.

Multiple people have emailed me about this, so (despite my reservations)
I will update my packages and upload them.  I will do some testing to
decide
a) whether to use cvs HEAD or 0.9.5, and
b) whether to upload to unstable or experimental.

Expect packages within the next few weeks.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:17:27PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> 
> Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> >There _will_ be longstanding severe/grave bug reports on the package.
> 
> That't fine. This way it will be kept out of testing.
> 
> I'd rather have a package with some bugs that I can use in some fields 
> than no package at all. If you don't want to use the package simply 
> don't install it.
> 
> > it _will_ change.
> 
> Ok, then I'll change the package accordingly. It won't the first 
> changing package that I'm maintainig. You can take a look at Tomcat's 
> history for example: Tomcat 4.1.2 has almost nothing in common with the 
> first Tomcat 3.x package.
> 
> > InterSync does most of the legwork upon startup (even right down to
> > adding new users to the system);
> 
> I know this and I'll patch intersync to suit the Debian Policy. I'll 
> disable the automatic startup of httpd and leave it up to the user to 
> configure their web server to restrict access (allow, deny, SSL, ...) to 
> InterMezzo's CGIs.
> 
> I'd rather have you maintain the packages since you probably know more 
> about InterMezzo than me. But then you have to upload your packages 
> within the next few weeks. Keeping an ITP open for almost 2 years is not 
> an option.
> 
> Greetings,
> Stefan Gybas

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