On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:40:04PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Well for an outsider of Debian, it is almost impossible to get a chance. > Most of the time your project isn't packed and even if it is nobody > cares to download and use a "dpkg -i package". And with the current > "sources.list" it's impractical to implement an appropriate URL. It's fairly easy to make an aptable archive, though there are other things besides aptability that might make people reluctant to use external apt sources (the BTS and the greater assurance of long-term package maintenance that something in the main Debian archive has both spring to mind). > It is absolute out of question that in such a case Debian would change > anything to help you, even if the outcome would be approximately halving > the bandwide usage of each Debian rsync mirror. If you don't believe my > search for "gzip --rsyncable" in this list. I'd suggest looking at debconf, debhelper and apt. DBS to a lesser extent, too. All of these things have managed to gain widespread acceptance through *some* means in the time I've been involved with Debian. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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