Bug#377948: Oh dear
On 07/Apr/2008 04:40 Carr, Chris wrote ..
> 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.
Thanks!
I would be glad to accept any patches to the packages I've created that make them
acceptable for Debian, as long as the current basic installation method is preserved.
What I think has caused some problems in the past is the way the /etc/webmin directory
is created at install time, rather than being part of the package. Unfortunately, this
is necessary as it's initial contents can differ based on the Debian version being
installed into ..
- Jamie
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