Re: The Debian Mentors Project
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote:
> Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> wrote Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:36:12AM +1000:
> > *very* serious problem for anyone who starts relying on the binary packages
> > uploaded to m.d.n. What sort of protections do you have in place or plan to
> > put in place to protect against this sort of thing?
>
> The mentors project is not something like apt-get.org! Hosting stable
> and safe packages is not our goal. We are responsible for the contact
> between maintainers and sponsors. Not between maintainers and users.
Appropos of this and Colin's statement, my suggestion is to make only a
deb-src URL available on the site, and to only host source packages. For
packages destined for the Debian archive, it's critical that they be
reviewed as source, and that they build from source. I do a fair amount
of sponsoring, and never have need for a binary of the package being
sponsored.
Cheers,
tony
<tmancill@debian.org.
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