Perhaps for now, just violate debian and place in contrib? similar to gitlab packages

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:21:16 +0100 Roberto Lumbreras <ro...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Pieter,
>
> The packaging process is a bit of a nightmare, as server includes and
> depends on a lot of css and javascript packages. Some of them are already
> available on Debian, others need to be packaged first, then all those files
> have to be deleted from sources to be released with Debian. Otherwise you
> will end up with the same thing you can download from urbackup.org, but
> with a lot of Debian Policy violation bugs (not sure, just a wild guess).
>
> For the last weeks I haven't worked on the packaging (lack of time), but I
> intend to do it eventually.
> It will take a lot of work and time for sure, so if you can help go ahead.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 7:33 PM Pieter De Wit <pie...@insync.za.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to get urbackup into Ubuntu, not via a PPA. I was told that
> > the easiest way is to get it in via upstream. As such, I was wondering if > > you need some help in doing this as I see you have a request going already ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pieter
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Roberto Lumbreras
> Debian developer

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