On 6 May 2010 02:09, Ryan Oram <r...@infinityos.net> wrote: > It seems like a good site, but I ultimately feel it should be the > developer themselves who package the applications, as the developers > will have a much greater incentive to make working and tested packages > then the maintainers (no offense to the great work of the maintainers > of Ubuntu and Debian). > > Ryan >
Upstream developers build from trunk and they don't care on how to package it cause they personally do not need it. Upstreams don't usually have a clue in packaging and spend quite a bit of time trying to make it build and ignoring all lintian warnings because someone asked them to & there is no real package available in the archive. These upstream debanisations are usually of poor quality and can do nasty things to your machine (static libs, auto-updating and pinging upstream about userbase => google chrome & they do know how to package btw so this was on purpose and not to make it fit into the system) If some project doesn't have a package it is either new, unnoticed, or half-broken code that it cannot justify packaging effort. > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher > <danielholloc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey there, have you thought about just working more closely with >> getdeb.net? They are doing the same thing, except it isn't restricted >> to just multimedia packages. Regardless, good luck. >> >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Ryan Oram <r...@infinityos.net> wrote: >>> End users don't want to have to add PPAs or download .deb files off of >>> websites. >>> >>> With infinityOS, users never have to leave their package management >>> system (or Software Center really) to get programs or update them to >>> the latest versions. This includes drivers. It works so well that I am >>> now suggesting that downloading packages from a third-party website is >>> a security hazard and that users should stick only to the packages >>> provided by default in the infinityOS and Ubuntu repos. This >>> completely eliminates the possiblity of spyware, as end-users would >>> only download packages that have been authenticated, peer-reviewed, >>> and tested. >>> >>> I would be more than happy to bring such functionality upstream to >>> Ubuntu. I want my ideas to be used by as many people as possible. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ryan Oram >>> >>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Hollocher >>> <danielholloc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I'm pretty sure that getdeb.net and the ppa's on launchpad satisfy >>>> most cravings for rolling releases. >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> In science and in mind, the impossible and the hasn't-happened-yet are >> indistinguishable. >> > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
