Raphael Geissert dijo [Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:05:23PM -0600]: > William Pitcock wrote: > [...] > > > > The ideal way to handle this would be to have a single repository. PPAs > > solve a different problem, which is giving contributors and developers a > > playground to publish their in-progress packages. This is more about > > getting packages to users in an efficient way, for maintainers that do > > not wish to include those packages in Debian proper for either policy > > reasons, code quality reasons, or otherwise. > > Solution: > http://their.domain.tld/debian sid main
The problem there is for this is that people want their work to be known by more people. Have you seen how outdated apt-get.org is? It was a valuable resource back then, but... Well, last time I checked, there were still several Potato backports for software in Woody. Oh, and right now it has become completely useless - It says it knows about 1448 sites, but lists only one: http://ftp.debian.org/debian > Why do people even want to care about those packages? > I mean, why would one want to use a package which has dubious quality, dubious > maintenance, dubious origins (can it even be legally distributed/used/etc?), > dubious <insert whatever you want here>?. > > If a package is not in shape, then get it in shape. > If they don't know how to setup a simple repository or don't know how to > package > and are not willing to learn, then they should just forget about it and > install > the software by hand (if they know how to do that, of course). > > There's no reason to spend/waste more time/resources on all that extra stuff > only newcomers will, wrongly, use. I have to agree with you on this rant, as a DD. However, there are LOTS of software which are not up to Debian's standards in this-or-that regard. Having an infrastructure where just about anybody can upload packages (with just a legality check, I'd say) is positive. Then again... We can direct them to Ubuntu ;-) They are offering the service with their PPAs. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]