It looks as if Jamie has given up trying to get webmin accepted into Debian. 
Perhaps he was repelled by the tone of Peter's message: 

"in short it seems you have hacked up a way to build a deb without reading the 
new maintainers guide at all."

Jamie had clearly read the guide, and found that it did not enable him to 
create a perfect Debian package on his first (or third) try. (I can understand 
his position: I too am trying to build my first Debian package, and I'm finding 
the documentation insufficiently helpful.) This kind of treatment of a 
prospective maintainer (especially one who is the upstream author of a popular 
and widely-used application) is disappointing. 

I also agree with Stéphane - it would be helpful if this bug appeared more 
quickly when searching for webmin in Debian - e.g. on 
http://packages.debian.org/webmin

Perhaps a friendly DD out there could have another try at helping Jamie get 
webmin back into Debian? I'm sure a lot of Debian users would appreciate it. 

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