Bug#182700: www.debian.org should link to apt-get.org (was: Re: I think it's mostly about communication)

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:45:21PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 12:05, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> 
> > Now, the good news is, of course, that you actually can have KDE 3.x on debian 
> > (long before it finally entered sid), and same goes for openoffice and a lot 
> > of other stuff that _people simply want to have_. And you can have it without 
> > it being included in official stable. The one problem that remains is to 
> > figure out, _how_ to get it. That's not a big problem, once you are 
> 
> You apparently don't know apt-get.org - they already maintain such a
> list.
> 
> I'm filing a (wishlist) bug with the www.debian.org pseudopackage that
> the 'Getting Debain' page, or even the 'Getting Started' section of the
> title page should contain a hint like
> 
> 	Some Software is not included in Debian for various reasons, but 	is
> nonetheless available as debian packages. apt-get.org
> 	maintains a list of such software.
> 
> Something like that.

I definitely object to saying that kind of thing anywhere near the sections
for total newbies (unofficial repositories can break their systems), but
yes, a link to apt-get.org should be added in a few places.

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