Bug#139749: preliminary webgui packages

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005, Matt Barry wrote:
> I am posting this to the BTS in case anyone is looking for WebGUI
> packages and wants to test them out. :) I am not yet seeking a sponsor:
> - The package should handle the upstream database upgrade scripts in
> postinst; currently it does not.
> - The package includes a (Debian-specific) script, update-webgui,
> which is designed for managing virtual hosts. It works, but is a) a tad
> kludgy, and b) IMHO, should be replaced with a more standard helper that
> can be extended to other web apps (kind of like www-common). I'm
> working on such a package, but it is nowhere near ready for distribution.
> - WebGUI 6.3.x will, AIUI, introduce many changes to the WebGUI
> core; I think it makes sense for me to iron these out first rather than
> dealing with upgrades from the current 6.2.x.

Hi,

as part of the effort of cleaning the WNPP bugs, I just wanted to know
your status on packaging webgui. Are you still intending to do integrate
it in Debian? Are you waiting for a sponsor? Are the above issues
resolved?

Friendly,
--
adn
Mohammed Adnène Trojette

[Matt Barry]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 23:49 +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote:
> as part of the effort of cleaning the WNPP bugs, I just wanted to know
> your status on packaging webgui. Are you still intending to do integrate
> it in Debian? Are you waiting for a sponsor? Are the above issues
> resolved?

I am still planning on it; upstream development has been a fairly
fast-moving target, but the latest version (6.7.4 at the moment) is
still currently packaged at the location above. Things that I'd like to
resolve before looking for a sponsor are:
- integration with dbconfig-common (working on this now)
- support for more than just the apache2/mod_perl environment within
the package
- packages for the (mostly CPAN) dependencies that webgui requires
(these are also packaged at the same location, but I haven't yet
submitted ITP's)

Thanks,
Matt