Re: what about a unofficial public community repo?
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Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Friday 28 November 2008 23:57:09 Holger Levsen, vous avez écrit :
>> On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote:
>>> I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of
>>> Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository
>>> for things like qmail, packages unwanted in Debian proper for the time
>>> being, etc.
>> debian-unofficial.org
>
> Or, why not
> apt-get.org ?
> Or
> mentors.debian.net ?
>
> Honnestly, I fail to see clearly the benefit of it, apart from more confusion
> and new issues..
>
> Romain
>
>
I think the goal is to create a common infrastructure, creating a Debian
repository takes resources that some do not have. apt-get.org is great
if you know about pinning and such but otherwise using it can really
bork your system, mentors is a hosting service for packages which will
be part of Debian, at some point. What is needed is a properly
constructed archive, with some of the same procedures NEW, buildds etc.
For packages such as qmail which are useful, but which for some reason
can't be supported in Debian. I also see this as a way for NMs to show
their stuff without the sometimes painfully slow sponsorship process.
Cheers
Matt
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