Debian Packaging

[Shawn Heisey]

This email is intended for Christoph Berg, the guy who's packaged hobbit 
4.2 for the next Debian version and etch-backports, but I thought others 
might be interested.  Keep in mind for this message that I am referring 
to this specific source package, not the debian directory included in 
Henrik's original source.

I haven't done an in-depth study, but I've noticed that most of what's 
in the allinone patch is not included in this packaging effort.  When I 
apply the allinone patch against the source tree after debian/rules 
applies its patches, only two of the patches fail to apply - the one for 
./hobbitd/rrd/do_ncv.c is already applied, and the one for 
./hobbitd/wwwfiles/menu/menu_items.js.DIST fails because this file 
doesn't exist.  In fact, the enture hobbitd/wwwfiles/menu directory is 
empty.

For my production server, I have taken the source package and applied 
the allinone and bbwin patches to it, but now I am wondering if that was 
a good idea.  Is the allinone patch omitted from the debian package for 
a good reason?  Why is that menu directory empty?

Thanks,
Shawn