Am Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 05:56:32PM +0000, schrieb Jeremy Stanley: > On 2025-11-03 13:22:28 +0100 (+0100), David Kalnischkies wrote: > > apt-ftparchive, an aging tool, which as far as I know sees its only > > serious usage by your employer in the form of Launchpad, right? > > A quick sidebar: what more modern alternatives do folks recommend? For years > (decades?) I've used apt-ftparchive release, followed by gpg --clear-sign of > InRelease, for a quick command-line solution to create small personal > secure-APT compatible Debian package repositories. Is there something else > similarly simple these days? fwiw I wasn't saying that people have to stop using, nor that it will disappear any time soon. It is too useful for src:apt for testing – and just like src:apt also includes an HTTP server that I constantly use in place of `python -m http.server`, it's not particular hard to keep `apt-ftparchive` around for personal use. Just don't expect that any development that is not directly motivated by testing/personal usage will happen or that it will get somehow "user-friendly". But apt-ftparchive has the option to use BDB (= Berkeley DB) for caching and while I still believe it wouldn't be too hard to change to another DB (minus the probably hard part of vacillating a transition), I don't see it happen any time soon. At least I don't see why I should do it & so did nobody else in the last 12 years [0] (also: #1119193). That said, by all means, feel free to seek and use alternatives. I am not able to offer any advice through. Just trying to clarify the status of it, as I see it, to avoid misunderstandings. Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/07/msg00132.html
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