Hi Jonathan, Jan, I would like to welcome yourself and AIMS Desktop to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and AIMS Desktop to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/AIMS_Desktop It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: https://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to AIMS Desktop. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the AIMS Desktop census page, I've made a few changes to the AIMS Desktop census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/AIMS_Desktop?action=info The page says that AIMS Desktop modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does AIMS Desktop 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. Some of the Release files in the apt repository for AIMS Desktop are missing the Valid-Until header, which allows clients to find out when active network attackers are holding back newer Release files. At minimum, rolling releases and suites containing security updates should have this header. With reprepro you can use the ValidFor config option. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#Date.2C_Valid-Until The apt repository for AIMS Desktop does not contain source packages for a few binary packages versions, which might be a GPL violation. calamares 2.4.2-1~aimsppa2 calamares 2.4.3-1~aimsppa1 calamares 2.4.4-1 kpmcore 2.1.1-1~ppa1 kpmcore 2.2.1-1 There doesn't appear to be a AIMS Desktop blog or a blog aggregator for AIMS Desktop developers. If these existed they would be syndicated on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out the things that are happening in AIMS Desktop. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ If there are any Debian groups in South Africa, it would be great to document them here: https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups Thanks for your involvement in DebConf16 orga and I hope you will be able to make it to DebConf17 and DebConf18 :) It sounds like you have your preparations for Debian stretch well underway with students testing RC images just yesterday. https://plus.google.com/+JonathanCarter/posts/EuEUcwwAVq7 A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release working well is to install and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up. https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help Please feel free to circulate this mail within the AIMS Desktop team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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