Re: heads up

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> I have considered a "Debian port outside of Debian" a couple of years
> ago very carefully, for some reasons.  And it is not an easy task, if
> you want to do it properly.  There is a major difference between
> having a couple of extra packages on a server, and maintaining a full
> archive and keep it in sync.  Also there are considerable extra costs,
> like keeping up a mirror network etc, which are all administrative but
> have to be done by someone.

We don't need a mirror network, and Debian SCC wouldn't have one
anyway.