In the steps of #461488: Packaging Drush for Debian and #490004: package provision for Debian, I think we should also consider a package for the frontend, the last item remaining in the magic glue. The trick here will be to play around with http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dh-make-drupal and the drupal packages already in Debian, which could prove really annoying.

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jaxpax commented

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adrian commented
Version: 5.x-0.2 » 6.x-0.4-alpha2

i think the way forward here is the drush make functionality we just added.

ie: don't package the front end as .debs, but how to construct the front end is included in the backend.

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anarcat commented

In fact, it's not as bad as it seems: the Drupal version in Debian is pretty up to date, if we take into account the backports to lenny. Also, that dh-make-drupal will be very useful to build the package.

I don't think we should make the package use drush make on install, but it can certainly use it to build the package. Basically, the new install.sh.txt will do just that, and will make building the packages fairly trivial.

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anarcat commented

Update: the backend package now installs the frontend, which is probably wrong, but works. It also completely bypasses the normal Drupal Debian packages. See #490004: package provision for Debian.

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steven jones commented
Status: Active » Fixed

We now have a frontend package for debian, so I'm going to close this issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.