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Joerg Friedrich wrote: > Is there nobody who cares that Debian has no admin-tool like other big Hmm, I wouldn't say that. You care about this. Please continue. > distributions have (RedHat or SuSe, btw I do NOT want to start a > discussion about the useability of YaST or anything like that !!!) > I'm very impressed by the features of linuxconf. But the Package in > projekts/experimental destroys my /etc/init.d scripts and is out of date. > There is a new upstream-release. Can you fix / package it? > Unfortunatly I'm not able to build a NMU because don't understand how to > use the debian-packaging tools (yet). But I want to help to make a stable > package of linuxconf. i.e. extensive testing :-) Please refer to ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/doc/package-developer/ as well as the develpers corner at http://www.de.debian.org/ . > The only problem is to reach the maintainer. Who is he? Ah, Phil Hands... Hmm, if it is very important for you I guess you could try whois on hands.com and use the information provided there to reach him. (There is this nice xwhois tool) > IMHO Debian should have a easy-to-use but secure admintool. In my opinion > linuxconf is a very good one and we should have it in next release > (potato :-)) The problem with all administration tools (linuxconf, coas, yast, redhat admin) is that they are not flexible enough to fit all needs. However I would appreciate if somebody would spend some time on them to make them work with Debian and co-work with the upstream authors. You seem to be keen on this issue, please continue. > P.S. Maybe someone can tell me how use the debian-packaging tools. Read the documents mentioned above or ask concrete questions on debian-mentors (or #Debian) > BTW. Discussion about an Admintool for Debian should take place in the > Debian-Admintool-List. Please check where your replies go to!!!!!!! > > P.P.S.: Sorry for my (bad) English. What was bad? > -- > Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! Ah, that's what you mean. Sorry, I don't understand. :) -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
