On 2026-04-12 09.44, Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Hi, > >> This package contains a Squid proxy configuration to manage a cache >> of .deb downloads, with optimizations for the types of file present >> in package repositories, and using a dedicated directory and port. > > Thanks for this ITP initiative.
Cheers! >> This packages was already part of Debian, but got removed because of an >> RC bug that didn't get fixed (see #1081589), and in general because of >> lack of maintenance. I adopted the package (in agreement the previous >> maintainer), fixed its bugs and plan to re-upload it to Debian soon. > > Maybe you can document what's different from the legacy squid-deb-proxy > package. For instance, it seems the client binary package was dropped. Yes, I dropped that in favor of auto-apt-proxy. I don't rule out adding that back in the future, should the need arise, but I'd prefer squid-deb-proxy to only deal with the proxy part, offering a standard handle (avahi) for other tools to use. I'll mention the removal in d/NEWS, thanks for the suggestion. > Also, I had started similar work[1] but never went for pushing it > to the Debian archive. As I never understood to separate squid instance > scenario, I chose to integrate into the system squid instance. If you think > this is usefull I can work on supporting this in the package. I also > use a Makefile to build acls, maybe it's interesting. > > [1] https://sml.zincube.net/~niol/repositories.git/squid-debproxy-conf/about/ Thanks. For now I'll stick with the old approach, but I'll be happy to discuss and review improvements once the package will be back in Debian. -- Paride
