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My first "useful" Debian Package

Some long time ago, I've packaged PostfixAdmin but couldn't find a sponsor to get it uploaded into Debian.
Now I have contact with upstream and worked out a quite improved version with him. We want to work together in this task to benefit from each other.

You can help us if you're testing the new package:
- The Debian/lenny version: http://normes.org/debian/stable/postfixadmin_2.3rc5_all.deb
- The Debian/squeeze version: http://normes.org/debian/unstable/postfixadmin_2.3rc5_all.deb

Feedback is always welcome!

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Welcome to DebMan.

Some months ago I started a new project called "DebMan" on my own.
DebMan is a System-Management tool for Debian. It's planned to support much more distributions, but I have to get the first working version ready to show the world soon. ;o) It will give you a short overview how healthy your systems are. If required, you can force software updates of given software packages on specified systems. - Just as a very short introduction...

I've uploaded the current state into a brandnew subversion repository: DebMan WebSVN.
Feel free to check out and contribute comments, ideas, patches etc. !

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How precise can a version number be?

Today I've done some statistical analysis on Debian "Packages" files of lenny and sid, just casuall located:

$ time max-version-len.py
Package: rt73-modules-2.6.25-2-486
Version: 2.6.25+1.0.3.6-cvs20080623-dfsg1-3
 len: 44

real    0m3.219s
user    0m2.948s
sys    0m0.124s

I don't know which package would be the top 1, if we select all non-"-dfsg" version numbers and add a pseudo "-dfsg1"... :o) Version numbers with more than 40 characters are very... precise.

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