[Postfixadmin-devel] apt package maintenance for PostfixAdmin

[Dave N. <da...@da...>]

Hi guys,

I don't know if someone is maintaining the apt package for PostfixAdmin, 
but I'd be willing to take on the task if desired.

However, I know zero about apt package maintenance. But I'd be happy to 
study up on the subject. I downloaded The Debian Administrator's 
Handbook and had a look at the section on deb package maintenance. I'm 
pretty sure I could get up to speed on that, although not all the info 
I'd need to learn is there, so I'd need a little bit of mentoring in the 
beginning.

I did a bit of searching on duckduckgo, but didn't find much else of 
relevance. Maybe someone would have some useful links?

As regards the PostfixAdmin package, I wanted to install it on an ubuntu 
16.04 server recently. I saw that it was going to install apache2, 
whereas I'm going to be using nginx as a requisite of something else 
I'll be installing.

Is it really necessary to make apache2 an obligatory part of the 
software installed? I know it's not really a dependency as such, because 
i have PostfixAdmin being served happily by nginx on another server 
(Ubuntu 18.04).

I thought that it might be more logical to make the PostfixAdmin package 
more "Web-server-agnostic" and maybe install the files needed for both 
apache2 and for nginx in the right places, but without actually 
installing either Web server. But whatever... Maybe there are reasons 
I'm not aware of?

Anyway, I can also write great technical documentation (I'm a technical 
translator by trade [FR > EN]). Or is there some other way I can 
contribute to the project?

About me: I'm a Linux lover for more than 10 years, but just at 
"hobbyist" level. I escaped from Windows as soon as I found I could use 
VirtualBox to run it as a guest under Linux when I need to use MS Office 
and a couple of Windows-only tools I have to use professionally.

I lease a VPS and a bare-metal server, and I use Kubuntu on my laptops. 
I used to use Gnome (which I also love), but fell totally in love with 
KDE when I tried it out recently.

On my servers, I've had a lot of fun setting up quite a variety of the 
cool Web packages out there, following instructions in the projects' 
docs and the many how-to's to be found on the Internet.

I recently started a blog at https://dalek.zone

All best wishes,
Dave