[Kolab-devel] New with Kolab (Hello all)

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Mardi 13 Mars 2007 11:31, Jonathan Carter a écrit :
> Hi Kolabbers
>
> I recently joined Impi Linux[1], a company that predominantly provides
> desktop and server solutions based on free software to local government
> organisations.
>
> I also work with Stphan Buys, who has done quite a bit of Kolab work in
> the past and has recently re-introduced himself to the list[2].
>
> We're quite excited about Kolab and we plan to use it widely in a
> variety of configurations. Ideally, we would want to use native Debian
> packages, since our distribution is based on Ubuntu[3]. The most current
> Debian packages[4] is currently at version 1.9, and we require Kolab
> version 2.1 as our clients require new functionality.

Hello,

althought the version is named 1.9 on the debian packages the version is 
really 2.0.4.

We already have some customer wanting 2.1 and we are using the debian 
package 2.0.4 in production with the GOsa management frontend.

For now the debian packages misse debconf style of installation and the 
template system is not integrated in the debian packages

We could collaborate on making great debian packages for 2.1

> We're considering a few options to get it into native Debian packages.
> We don't really want Kolab in /kolab since it's not FHS'sy[6] place to
> put it, and upstream would never approve of it either. We're also
> considering using the current Debian versions of kolab-cyrus, etc, and
> simply packaging the newest Kolab specific packages (kolabd,
> kolab-resource-handlers, kolab-webadmin and kolabadmin), although that
> comes with its own complications. From what I've read so far, it seems
> that it might be best to use the OpenPKG installation until Debian
> upstream has created native packages. I'll be posting a similar message
> to their list[7] and provide input, perhaps I can help fast-track things
> by providing assistance there, I hope that some of the Debian packagers
> are on this list.

Has i said earlier ;-)  debian native packges do exist, just missing some 
autoconfiguration facilities.

Cheers
-- 
Benoit Mortier
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