On Wednesday 17 October 2007 06:47, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > Scott Kitterman napisał(a): > > I was thinking about this some more. My objection isn't to the > > installation method, but to the packages. Someone earlier in the thread > > mentioned the benifits of the web front end that Getdeb provides. > > > > Rather than remove something like gnucash from getdeb, what really needs > > to happen is just pointint from the getdeb package to the Ubuntu one. In > > the gnucash case it would be changing: > > > > http://www.getdeb.net/download.php?release=1496&fpos=0 > > http://www.getdeb.net/download.php?release=1496&fpos=1 > > http://www.getdeb.net/download.php?release=1496&fpos=2 > > > > with > > > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9958499/gnucash_2.2.1-1ubuntu4%7Efeisty1_i3 > >86.deb > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9958498/gnucash-common_2.2.1-1ubuntu4%7Efei > >sty1_all.deb > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9959217/gnucash-docs_2.2.0-1%7Efeisty1_all. > >deb > > > > The web front end could stay. > > > > This would have a number of advantages: > > > > Reduced storage and bandwidth usage for getdeb > > Fewer packages users have to uninstall before an upgrade > > Fewer issues due to unofficial package use > > > > How about something like that? I've no objections to that approach > > myself. > > I think it is a good idea, but I see 2 problems: > 1. Ubuntu should provide links to debs which do not change in time or > some way of automatically feeding changes to deb names to getdeb, so > that updates do not require manual intervention.
I'd like to be able to dget source from LP too, but it's reallly not how their system is designed, but I don't think the links actually change over time. > 2. Pure .deb packages are not signed (as far as I understand APT > system). Only repos are. So the security problem stays the same. I disagree. If I'm pulling a .deb from LP over https, I have a lot more confidence in that than one that's signed, but from some external site. Not ideal, but it's better. Scott K -- 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
