Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes: > I just heard about GroundZero, a repository of experimental software, > http://www.yggdrasil.com/test/GroundZero/ > > They provide their binaries in a number of forms, including .deb .. The > trouble is that they are using normal version numbers. I have stated > before that Deity depends on their being only one deb for each version, > having two debs called 1.3 that are not the same will cause problems. > > Perhaps we should decide on some sort of policy regarding this? I personally think it's just a case of "buyer beware". I don't think Adam Richter of Yggdrasil is doing the repository with the expectation that people will be mixing packages via dpkg-ftp or deity. They are going to be installing them manually using dpkg -i. And those packages are definitely not going to be conforming to any sort of Debian policy. If a user installs a non-Debian package using dpkg -i, and it screws up, that doesn't make us look bad, because it's his/her own fault. I haven't looked at deity lately, but I imagine that if you are going to present menus of packages that the user can select from foreign, non-Debian sites, then it would be a nice feature to tag the installed packages with the name of the site where it came from. If you want to tackle that issue - you won't have to worry about just version collisions - multiple sites will lead to name collisions also. The same issues arise with any type of unofficial repository. BTW, I still want to do one - but I'm lacking disk space on my server (and the time to set it up) right now. Cheers, - Jim
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