Re: A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-05 Thread Albert van der Horst
> Op 04-03-2022 01:10 schreef Paul Wise : > > > On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 16:30 +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote: > > > Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to > > publish these packages? > > While it is fine to publish .deb packages outside of Debian, it is > usua

Re: A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 16:30 +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to > publish these packages? While it is fine to publish .deb packages outside of Debian, it is usually better for everyone and recommended by Debian to get them inc

Re: A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-03 Thread Michael Stehmann
Hello, there are a lot of packages in deb format published outside the Debian community (esp. by some distributions, but also by some so called upstream projects). The deb format is an open standard. But there are some differences between Debian packages and packages using the deb format.

Re: A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-03 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 05:29:47PM +0100, Ali Mezgani wrote: > On 03/03/2022, at 17:27, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote: > >> Dear mentors, > >> I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages. > >> > >> The format is ideal for my

Re: A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-03 Thread Ali Mezgani
Rahmatullin, I remember you and I remember you contributions. > On 03/03/2022, at 17:27, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages. >> >> The format is ideal for my use

Re: A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Dear mentors, > I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages. > > The format is ideal for my users to install, and the .deb format takes care > of installing .info files at the right place, something I find impossible to

A question about "non official" debian packages

2022-03-03 Thread Albert van der Horst
Dear mentors, I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages. The format is ideal for my users to install, and the .deb format takes care of installing .info files at the right place, something I find impossible to do. Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to publis