I don't think we need ppa vs debain debate here , we need both :-) On 12/31/13, Tino Didriksen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 December 2013 21:00, Jacob Nordfalk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Obviously it would be best to get fresh Apertium versions into the >> central >> Debian repository, no? >> > Correct - inclusion into Debian is the best way. > > Is a PPA a stepping stone to get into the central Debian repository? >> > Nope, unfortunately not. The PPA is not even likely to work for > Debian-prime - PPAs only work for Ubuntu derivatives. > > Well, if done right, you can reuse the scripts that make the PPA sources > for making a Debian source package. > > >> Is the central Debian repository a dead dinosaur which is impossible to >> update? >> > Yes, pretty much...(imo) > > >> Why? >> > Maintaining packages for inclusion into the Debian repository is a stupid > amount of work, lacks documentation, and is overall just not as easy as it > should be. You need to adhere to every guideline, license, quality > assurance, and whatever else they think of to make it more Debian-esque. > > Maintaining a PPA is as simple as running a script that pushes your latest > sources to Ubuntu's Launchpad service, which then builds it for all > supported Ubuntu distros. You can update the packages multiple times per > day, if you so desire, and it works very well. > > For the end-user, anything in the Debian repo will be available for all > Debian and Ubuntu derivatives without needing to do anything extra, which > is obviously great. > PPAs are harder to use, but still only require the end-user to run a single > "sudo apt-add-repository ppa:user/repo" before they can get the packages. > > -- Tino Didriksen >
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