[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#589155: mailman: move web interface to a separate package

[Roger Lynn]

On 15/07/2010 13:17, Bilal Akhtar wrote:
> As requested on launchpad bug #547249 ( http://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/547249 )
> , it would be better to split the mailman source package into 2 binary
> packages, so that people who need just the mailing list manager and not the
> cumbersome web interface requiring Apache, can install and use Mailman.

Mailman doesn't require Apache, it should work with any web server providing
a CGI interface (ie almost all of them). I have personally used it with both
lighttpd and thttpd, which work perfectly.

I believe the existing package should actually work as it is without a web
server installed. All that would be required to allow it do so is to relax
the dependency on httpd a little.

Roger

(Not a Debian or Mailman developer, just a satisfied user)