Re: ping for missing maintainers

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Otavio Salvador [Tue, Jun 20 2006, 09:45:24AM]:
> Chris Halls <halls@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:38, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be better to merge this with apt-cacher and combine your
> >> skills and time? They do seem awfully similar in what they do if not
> >> how they do it.
> >
> > Well, when apt-cacher started out, it needed an apache installation to work 
> > and I did not see that as a good replacement for apt-proxy, and it lacked 
> > many of apt-proxy's features. It looks like it has grown many of these 
> > features now so maybe it might be mature enough to retire apt-proxy. It isn't 
> > really possible to merge the existing code since the implementations are so 
> > different.
> 
> But current apt-cacher still miss some nice features of apt-proxy like
> the possibility to enforce a server to be use for Debian or anything
> else.

Parse error. What do you want to enforce? You can setup path mapping
(from /debian to a list of real location) and forbid access to other
locations.

Eduard.