bugzilla3 skin support broken

I struggled with this issue for a while as well, and managed to figure out what was going on. The solutions is to create a skins directory in /var/lib/bugzilla3 - the path for the FlatGreen skin is /var/lib/bugzilla3/skins/contrib/FlatGreen. It appears to me that the problem is that the package does not create the empty directory, and there is no bugzilla (in the Debian readme or otherwise) that explains which skins directory the additional skins should be placed in.

The for this tip.
To make it finally working i did this:

The skin is placed in :

/usr/share/bugzilla3/web/skins/contrib/FlatGreen

otherwise it won't be found by bugzilla3 URL (404).

To make ot available in bugzilla settings i did a symlink (created skins directory like you said):

/var/lib/bugzilla3/skins/contrib -> /usr/share/bugzilla3/web/skins/contrib

Now it works.

Although a work-around is possible it still seems to be a valid issue. I will confirm it for now and see where it leads us. Do we know if this worked in previous versions?

Pending for 3.2.4.0-3

This bug was fixed in the package bugzilla - 3.2.4.0-3

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bugzilla (3.2.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Changed processing of Status/Resolution field changes. I hope this
    modification is less disturbing for 99% of typical installations.
  * Fixed ucf warning. Closes: #521855
  * (Ubuntu) Fixed processing of manual checksetup.pl execution.
    LP: #398892, #394972, #394846, #367476, #301909, #317963, #313310
  * (Ubuntu) Installation of outstanding packages is not supported.
    LP: #389962
  * (Ubuntu) perl-modules=5.10.0-24 provides the CGI package of version 3.29
    which is not enought to bugzilla. For Perl 5.10 version 3.33 of CGI
    package is required. LP: #386620
  * (Ubuntu) Added cvs and imagepagick to Recommends. LP: #386598
  * (Ubuntu) Applied example from Rolf Leggewie for vh-basic.conf. LP: #386608
  * (Ubuntu) Restart of apache2 added. LP: #300566
  * (Ubuntu) Processing of templates fixed by pre-checksetup.d script.
    LP: #302192
  * (Ubuntu) The sym-link /usr/share/bugzilla3/web/data ->
    /var/lib/bugzilla3/data is valid. LP: #386592
  * (Ubuntu) Sendmail support is fixed upstream. LP: #281379
  * (Ubuntu) Change file permissions for skins after checksetup.pl call.
    LP: #314123
  * (Ubuntu) Fixed file permissions in /etc/bugzilla3. LP: #386604

bugzilla (3.2.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed checksetup.pl script.
  * Changed severity to medium for security reasons fixed with new upstream
    release.

bugzilla (3.2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version. Closes: #528228
  * Removed uploaders; nobody else maintains this package.
    Closes: #521431, #536122
  * Added libmail-sendmail-perl dependency. Closes: #516101
  * Change access rights within cron's daily script. Closes: #516135
  * Added dependency on an non-existing package libemail-reply-perl. This
    package will RFP later but can be build with dh-make-perl in the meantime.
    To satisfy the dependencies libemail-mime-creator-perl will be installed
    instead and should be removed later. Closes: #528780
  * Revert access right /usr/share/bugzilla3/lib and /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla
    to 0775. Closes: #533394
  * Removed VirtualHost section from basic.conf. Closes: #511839
  * Removed bashishm from debian/rules. Closes: #535373
  * Updated Czech translation of bugzilla debconf messages. Closes: #535859
  * Spanish debconf template translation for bugzilla. Closes: #515313
  * Vietnamese debconf templates translation update. Closes: #509436
  * Update to 3.8.2 standard without changes.

 -- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:48:01 +0100