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Re: ftwca paste.debian.net



On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 21:13:33 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote:
Am Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:42:17AM -0600 schrieb Gunnar Wolf:
Alexander Wirt dijo [Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 08:41:23AM +0100]:
> paste.d.n is a pastebin and not a file distribution service.

Now, given the resource is controlled and we should not expect a large
amount of spam / malware... Alexander, I understand you not wanting to
commit to a "forever" storage, but I would also appreciate if you added a
way to add different expiry periods (including a reasonably-long-length)

Yeah you got me. I implemented the following: every authenticated user, that is in the Debian
group on salsa, can now again create pastes without expiration date. Use -1 as expiration date
if you want to use the API (don't forget the token).

Orthogonal to that enhancement, perhaps a better home for long-term content shared with the world would be a git repo on Salsa, or a project on Salsa with the "Snippets" feature enabled (that's Gitlab's equivalent of Github's "Gist")?

(Technically, both Snippets and Gists are a clone'able git repo containing a single blob (file) at top level, if I understand correctly - unlike a full Gitlab/Github project, they don't have their own issue tracker, merge requests or anything like that, just an editable text file with history.)

    smcv


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