On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 23:01 -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Romain Beauxis wrote: > > Le Friday 28 November 2008 23:57:09 Holger Levsen, vous avez écrit : > >> On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > >>> I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > >>> Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > >>> for things like qmail, packages unwanted in Debian proper for the time > >>> being, etc. > >> debian-unofficial.org > > > > Or, why not > > apt-get.org ? > > Or > > mentors.debian.net ? > > > > Honnestly, I fail to see clearly the benefit of it, apart from more > > confusion > > and new issues.. > > > > Romain > > > > > > I think the goal is to create a common infrastructure, creating a Debian > repository takes resources that some do not have. apt-get.org is great > if you know about pinning and such but otherwise using it can really > bork your system,
We're talking about a repository for substandard packages which may well do that anyway! > mentors is a hosting service for packages which will > be part of Debian, at some point. What is needed is a properly > constructed archive, with some of the same procedures NEW, buildds etc. > For packages such as qmail which are useful, but which for some reason > can't be supported in Debian. But that must be separate from Debian, so there is no confusion as to whether they meet Debian standards. > I also see this as a way for NMs to show > their stuff without the sometimes painfully slow sponsorship process. Unless the uploaders are in some way trusted (and NMs are, by definition, not yet trusted by the project as a whole) then the packages should not be autobuilt (you can run arbitrary code on the buildds) or in any way presented as trustworthy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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