Bug#377948: TAG: Webmin -- A web-based administration interface for Unix systems.
On 12/Jul/2006 08:39 Alexander Schmehl wrote ..
> Hi!
>
> * Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> [060712 09:13]:
>
> > >A Debian package of Webmin is available from:
> > >http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin_1.290.deb
> > To review a package, we need to see the .dsc, .diff.gz and
> > .orig.tar.gz files.
>
> Just out of curiosity I downloaded the package above.
>
> Looking at it with "dpkg -c", shows a lot of stuff to be installed to
> /usr/libexec/webmin/. Which seems odd to me, since
> a) curently there are no packages in debian installing something to
> /usr/libexec
> b) most of it seems to be architecture independend and should therefore
> be in /usr/share/fooo
Thanks for the info .. I used /usr/libexec/webmin for my RPM package, but I
will switch to /usr/share/webmin for the DPKG.
> c) Uhm... btw... how did you created a debian package without any
> architecture part (e.g. webmin_1.290_all.deb or webmin_1.290_i386.deb)
I used the dpkg --build command.
I will use the _all name in future.
> d) it missed necassary files, like the debian changelog, copyright
> information etc.
OK - is there any documentation on the formats for these files?
> e) It seems to install files with jcameron/uucp as uid/gid?
That's a bug - I'll fix that in the final build.
> f) Hmmm... the old webmin packages were splitted in many smaller
> packages; I think that was usefull
Not really, as it was different to the way all the other (RPM, Solaris, tgz)
Webmin packages were built, and introduced a bunch of dependency problems
between modules.
- Jamie
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