Bug#377948: Oh dear
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.
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