On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > PPA is a means how to get the packages to Debian and to ease the > process of it, for everyone.
What do you mean by "get the package to Debian"? Sponsorship? Or creating a competing repository for end-users? > Besides those you also have a social argument - that you fear it will > actually decrease the number of new packages in Debian, or that it > will increase the number of unhappy users. I think it will actually be > the opposite, but that's just my opinion. I'm scared by the thought that there will be a dozen PPAs that end-users will use to get their software from third-party sources. IMHO good packages should go officially into Debian. And bad packages should go to hell. Sponsorship might be a problem sometimes which may be solved by the "Debian Maintainer" status which should allow you to upload packages into Debian. I would hate to read on mailing lists "the version of 'kaffeine' in Debian is outdated. There is a newer version in PPA X that you could use. Or you use the version in PPA Y which is even newer but I hard it's broken". (shiver) > Basically I think all of those and similar problems can be solved, if > we want to. I'm absolutely on your side. Just not for the binary package part which scares me. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
