Bug#472802: limesurvey: looking at it

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:39:03AM +0200, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> As I'm interested in using this package in production, I am willing to
> spend some time fixing the packaging. I'm a Debian Maintainer with some
> experience mostly with Java packages. I'll commit my work to collab-maint
> when I get to something installable that kind-of works.
> 
> Jan-Pascal

Cool!  Please do discuss it with the limesurvey team as well.

One of the killers in previous attempts has been handling the
installation phase.  The standard distribution of limesurvey requires
visiting an installation web page on the server, then deleting (or
otherwise disabling) the installation scripts afterwards.  This is
highly impractical for a Debian system, as any upgrade of the package
will reinstall such scripts.  What is needed is some sort of postinst
script which will do the work automatically (presumably with the use
of debconf questions to gather the requisite information).

Good luck!

   Julian