Re: what about a unofficial public community repo?
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Raphael Geissert wrote:
> William Pitcock wrote:
> [...]
>> The ideal way to handle this would be to have a single repository. PPAs
>> solve a different problem, which is giving contributors and developers a
>> playground to publish their in-progress packages. This is more about
>> getting packages to users in an efficient way, for maintainers that do
>> not wish to include those packages in Debian proper for either policy
>> reasons, code quality reasons, or otherwise.
>
> Solution:
> http://their.domain.tld/debian sid main
>
> Why do people even want to care about those packages?
> I mean, why would one want to use a package which has dubious quality, dubious
> maintenance, dubious origins (can it even be legally distributed/used/etc?),
> dubious <insert whatever you want here>?.
>
> If a package is not in shape, then get it in shape.
> If they don't know how to setup a simple repository or don't know how to package
> and are not willing to learn, then they should just forget about it and install
> the software by hand (if they know how to do that, of course).
>
> There's no reason to spend/waste more time/resources on all that extra stuff
> only newcomers will, wrongly, use.
>
> Or do we have so much man power that there's no much left to do but to waste it?
>
>> William
>
> P.S. no need to reply; I just can't stand seeing this topic being brought to
> discussion over and over again, always suggesting the same, silly
> IMO, "solutions".
>
> Cheers,
> Raphael Geissert
>
>
>
> Solution:
> http://their.domain.tld/debian sid main
Not for some people.
Not to mention that most of those repos are improperly constructed,
some aren't even signed!
> Why do people even want to care about those packages?
Same reason you care about <insert random package from your dpkg
- --get-selections>
> If a package is not in shape, then get it in shape.
As some people will tell you that isn't always enough
> There's no reason to spend/waste more time/resources on all that extra
stuff
> only newcomers will, wrongly, use.
You are making the assumption that it will be like Upload > in, without
QA, NEW or anything and that is not what has been proposed.
> Or do we have so much man power that there's no much left to do but
to waste it?
This is a volunteer project, so individuals can allocate their time as
they see fit.
Matt
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