Re: Debian Sources List Generator
On Tuesday 11 June 2013 15:14:51 Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> 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:
> ----------
> Expiration of debian-multimedia.org
> -----------------------------------
>
> 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
> ----------
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
> --
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> Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
> "The Barsoom Project"
The Marillat repository has not moved or changed owner or expired. It has
changed its URL at Debian's request, and is now called
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ .
debian-multimedia.org is in Russian, and seems to have nothing whatsoever to
do with software.
Lisi
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