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Bug#472802: limesurvey: looking at it



On 10/29/2010 05:17 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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).

Feel free to use my work available at [1] if you want.  It's now a year old.

[1] http://www.nijaba.info/debian/

Nick


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