Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 23:57 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > > for things like qmail, packages unwanted in Debian proper for the time > > being, etc. > > debian-unofficial.org There's a few problems with debian-unofficial.org, as I see it: 1. It has the same quality requirements as Debian proper in terms of packaging and code quality -- in my way of interpreting things, qmail would not be acceptable here; 2. I believe, but may be wrong, that daniel@d.o is the only person who can actually add anything to it. So if daniel does not like qmail for example, it would not be added. What I propose is something more along the lines of Gentoo's "sunrise" overlay... a repository that anyone can get upload access to provided that they understand basic Debian policy and have established that they will be non-malicious (likely through some sort of indirect uploading for a few months). Basically a true *community* repo. This would likely be with the packaging source being maintained in SVN, so that there is a large amount of transparency in the maintenance process. William
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