Many PHP web applications follow this model for installation and upgrade:Un-tar a source tar ball.Point Apache at the source.Navigate a web browser to the home page.Go through several web pages of set-up (e.g., checks for existence of libraries, asks for database connection information, creates or updates database schema, etc.).User renames an install/ directory to something else so that application knows it has been installed.I don't see any (simple) way to create a Debian package out of this without making the user installing the package go through many of the above manual steps. Note that I am not a developer on the application so I am not in a position to make direct change to how the application installation works.What is the typical approach to packaging such an application?
Good approaches for packaging PHP web applications for Debian
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