On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:50:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Perhaps. I think you're underestimating the problems though -- most > external apt sources don't bother with most of our infrastructure; they > don't bother validating uploads (since only one person can upload), they > don't have good mirroring or mailing lists, they tend not to have BTSes, > they tend not to have any special security support, they tend not to have > a process for letting independent people add software to their archive > (ie, new-maintainers). Mostly this isn't a problem, because the software > they're maintaining is intended to get into the Debian archive sooner > or later, and doesn't really need it's own long term support structure.
We don't provide security support for non-free, to my knowledge. I believe most (if not all) of the other issues could be solved by running an Alioth-like service. Somebody would have to step forward to admin it, but the individual cost for all of the other maintainers would be fairly small. I proposed that several times on this list, but never got a feedback. Is this so far off? Or so clear without ambiguity? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
