Updating extrepo-offline-data in Debian Stable
Hi,
As you may know, extrepo is a system make it easy to add external
non-official Debian repositories to a Debian system.
Typically, Debian users will use it under Debian Stable, for things
packaged outside of Debian.
Since Bookworm, there's a package called "extrepo-offline-data" that
contains all the repository definitions that are normally hosted through
a page in Salsa. This really is a data only package, to be used by
extrepo itself, with the --offline-data option.
However nice the feature is, it really is useful with up-to-date
repositories and the repository keys they contain. Though unfortunately,
most repositories in extrepo, appear *AFTER* Debian stable is released.
That's the case for most repository maintained by some upstream authors,
but also for any repository that is backports to the current stable.
So IMO, it'd make a lot of sense to be able to update the
extrepo-offline-data package in Stable, so that Stable (currently
bookworm) would get the latest up-to-date repository list data.
I know there's the bpo repository that is open for such an upload, but
it'd be IMO a way nicer to update extrepo-offline-data in the normal
non-backports repository of Debian, so that users of extrepo wont have
to do the extra step of (temporarily) enabling backports only to access
to another repository.
Your thoughts?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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