Re: Debian Sources List Generator
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700
Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST)
> Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote:
> >
> > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at
> > > deb-multimedia.org?
> >
> > Yes, it is, alas.
> > I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister
> > "The deb-multimedia repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy
> > system" It took me sevaral days to get rid of the mess introduced
> > by this repo.
> >
> > I'll then have to install Ubuntu (at least as a virtual
> > machine), as it is difficult nowadays to live without some packages
> > which are missing in Debian.
>
> What mess did this repo make? I have been using deb-multimedia for
> years and have never had any mess.
>
The latest Debian Project News email had this:
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Expiration of debian-multimedia.org
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debian-multimedia.org was a popular unofficial repository of Debian
packages. Last year, this service moved to a new domain, and despite
efforts from Debian, the debian-multimedia.org domain recently expired,
and has now been registered by someone unknown to Debian. "This is a
good example of the importance of the use of cryptography to secure APT
repositories", DPL Lucas Nussbaum said [9]. The Debian project would
like to emphasise the need to consider possible security issues when
using third-party repositories and the importance of not blindly adding
keys to the APT keyring.
9:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00000.html
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