Fair enough. In this instance, there's nothing stopping me setting up a private repo for this deployment and/or personal use.
I just thought if it were possible it'd be nice to share the love. On 29 July 2013 13:05, Bjoern Michaelsen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:37:34PM +0100, Andrew Cassidy wrote: > > Obviously I've unnecessarily and unintentionally stirred up a shitstorm > for > > which I apologize. > > its alright. ;) > > > It's not specifically Debian, some Debian-based distributions can also > take > > their time filtering packages through from debian. For example, LMDE > hasn't > > released a new update pack since March and is starting to fall behind. > > If it was trivial for LMDE to just dump the packages somewhere, dont you > think > they simply would do it? > > > It was also my understanding that official TDF .debs were compatible with > > Debian, Ubuntu and derivative distributions. Again, feel free to correct > me > > if I'm wrong. > > And they have no dependency resolution whatsoever (as that is not possible > independant of distros). That they work _mostly_ is because most people > have > the dependencies installed, or dont use the cornercases in which they are > needed. So its pure luck -- and if its fails you get funny bug reports that > nobody wants or even can properly fix generically for all distros. > > We already have enough issues with people, who are unexperieced enough to > cleanly uninstall the distro version of LibreOffice and try to install the > conflicting TDF *.debs and then are in a quagmire they cant get themselves > out > of. Encouraging more people to shoot themselves in the foot is the last > thing > we need IMHO. > > Best, > > Bjoern > -- *Andrew Cassidy BSc (Hons) MBCS SSCA* Managing Director *T <[email protected]> *03300 100 960 *F<[email protected]> *03300 100 961 *E <[email protected]> *[email protected] *W <[email protected]> *www.cassidywebservices.co.uk
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