This package was actually removed from Debian because it was outdated (0.3). The Aegir project just released a beta release of 0.4 that could very well go into unstable. There's an issue opened on Drupal.org about this: http://drupal.org/node/490004#comment-3755292 There is a little "Debian heresy" in the package: 1. it prompts for the root MySQL password through debconf, without using dbconfig-common, apparently this is now discouraged 2. it downloads and deploys new code in postinst, code that is duplicated with the drupal6 package 3. it doesn't respect the FHS (everything is installed in /var/aegir) #1 is not a big problem: I do not think it will keep the package from being included in Debian. #2 is a bigger problem: I suspect it would break under the piuparts and automated test environments. Basically, the install depends on network connectivity and install new files not documented in the package file listing. It also doesn't clean up those files when the package is uninstalled. A way around this would be to do something similar than with the flashplugin-nonfree package: prompt the user if he wants to go forward with the install, defaulting to "no" so that automated tests don't freak out. #3 is much harder: upstream really assumes strongly that everything is one location. I tried to struggle with that tendency and kind of gave up when multi-server was implemented: everything got much more complicated and I feel it could take a while to respect the FHS again. Most of the files in /var/aegir are automatically managed by aegir (but not all!) so that shouldn't be a big surprise for Aegir users. In fact, if the Debian package doesn't follow the /var/aegir convention, it *will* create significant confusion for users migrating from manual installs. The debian/TODO also lists some other issues. Feedback would be appreciated on how to move this issue forward and make sure the package fits with Debian's policies. I have uploaded the package to http://debian.koumbit.net/ for testing by the community. Installs and upgrades (from manual installs, of course) need to be tested thoroughly. I will look for a mentor to try to get this into Debian again. Of course it will probably not hit squeeze, but sid is better than nothing. :) Thanks, A. -- Antoine Beaupré Réseau Koumbit Networks +1.514.387.6262
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