Bug#326398: Joomla! in Debian

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Hi fellas,
>
> A while ago, Alex de Oliveira Silva expressed intent to package Joomla!, a 
> content management system. It's a package I'm interested in right now. 
> Unfortunately, it looks to me like Alex has gone MIA before finishing the 
> package.
>
> I could personally do any of: sponsoring an upload, adopting the package, 
> or even packaging it myself if I have to. If, however, Alex or his previous 
> sponsor (Daniel Ruoso) happen to have a copy of the current state of the 
> package, so I don't have to package it from scratch, it might save me a bit 
> of work (depending on how much time I want to spend on the configuration 
> process, I guess...)

Ove,
an advance warning: Joomla! wouldn't be supported with security updates
in a stable release, since security problems are too frequent. There's also
serious concern, whether it's supportable through the life cycles of a
full Debian release.

Cheers,
        Moritz