Hi Nolan, I would like to welcome yourself and Cumulus Linux to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Cumulus Linux to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/CumulusLinux Thanks for joining our mailing list and IRC channel :) http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to Cumulus Linux. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the Cumulus Linux census page, I've made a few changes: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/CumulusLinux?action=info The apt repository for Cumulus Linux does not contain any source packages, including for packages licensed under the GNU GPL. This may or may not be a copyright violation depending on whether our not you distribute those elsewhere. In any case, please add source packages to your repository so that Debian can automatically create patches to be presented to Debian package maintainers. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA#No_source_packages https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration#Patches The page says that Cumulus Linux modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages. Does Cumulus Linux actually do this? If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making? If not I guess the page needs to be fixed. The page is missing a dpkg vendor field. It is important that Debian derivatives set this properly on installed systems and mention the value of the field in the derivatives census. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines#Vendor I've added the Cumulus Linux blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ This year the annual Debian conference is in Portland, OR, USA. I'm glad to see that Cumulus Linux developers will be attending and that Cumulus Networks is sponsoring the conference. http://debconf14.debconf.org/ I note that Cumulus Linux is based on Debian stable. The Debian release team recently released a timeline for the freeze for the next Debian stable release. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for rebasing on the next Debian release (jessie). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/07/msg00002.html The situation with Cumulus Linux and SSL is suboptimal, some links redirect to unencrypted http, some links have different content with https and some links have a revoked SSL certificate, examples below. I would suggest adding DNSSEC, TLSA, http->https redirects, HSTS etc. https://cumulusnetworks.com/ http://oss.cumulusnetworks.com/ https://oss.cumulusnetworks.com/ https://repo.cumulusnetworks.com/ Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Cumulus Linux team. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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