[hobbit] Hobbit in Debian

[Henrik Stoerner]

Hi Christoph,

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 12:35:00AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:

> so weeks ago I started looking into hobbit since one of my company's
> customers is using it. Of course the fact that it wasn't included in
> Debian so far was nagging me, so I took the packages from sf.net, used
> Henrik's debian/ dir as base for mine, and uploaded the packages.
> 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobbit.html

thank You very much! I had been hoping someone would volunteer to be
the Debian package maintainer, so this is very much appreciated.

> There's also a hobbit-plugins package, but so far it only contains 2
> plugins (an "apt" check, and a related check for upgraded libs still
> linked to running processes).
> 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobbit-plugins.html

Good idea to put this in a separate package.

> From a Debian viewpoint, the javascript to render the menu for the
> webpages wasn't free enough, so I wrote a replacement using CSS only.
> If that sounds interesting for inclusion into the next hobbit version,
> I can post the files here. (Or you can get them from ftp.debian.org.)

Excellent! I haven't looked at it yet, but it is certainly nice to have
a truly open implementation for this.



Regards,
Henrik