Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote:
The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current
GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we
agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor
package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponsor in time.
Yes, that is the most difficult part. I think it would also help, if
there was some official repository for unnoficial packages, so that I
(as non-DD) could just upload my package to mentors (which I can now)
and then just add the "deb" line (not just "deb-src") into sources.list
and could easily use all packages from mentors (at least on i386).
Because now everyone has it's own private repository, which I find very
unfortunate.
I find it easy enough to do:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ apt-src -bi install $package
apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current
working directory, then "b"uild it, and then "i"nstall the resulting
binaries.
This works just fine for me with the deb-src mentors line.
-- Asheesh.
--
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from
many it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner
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