Re: Installing 3rd party packages, apt URIs

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:45:44PM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2004 13:11, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:23:24AM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > But services like apt-get.org aren't there for nothing.
> > > Obviously there is currently a need for additional package
> > > reposititories. I just wanted to get people's ideas how using such
> > > secondary repositories could be made easier.
> >
> > Yeah, apt-get.org is useful, but it's a usability nightmare for newbies.
> 
> It is a hint that there are 3rd party apt resources, so allowing to add one of 
> them easily might be a nice idea, isn't it?

Right, but there are even better solutions ...

> > We already have one - it's just that I'm the only one who's ever
> > uploaded anything (libapache2-mod-xslt and dbus), since no-one else has
> > bothered asking for access.
> 
> Until today, as you wrote it in reply to my investigation, I didn't know about 
> that and I am subscribed to kde-debian, kde-debian-private and Debian's 
> qt-kde list.

I've been pimping it very, very hard.

> If I were an application maintainer, I would still not know what I would have 
> to do.
> You are an experienced Debian developer, you know the procedures, contraints, 
> etc.
> I am grateful when I can, after hours of work, get lintian to not complain 
> about a testpackage I tried to create.

Send me your GnuPG and SSH keys, preferred username, and I'll set you up
with an account on tycho.kde-debian.org.

> Anyway, can we agree that there are other apt sources available than the 
> official (and half-official like download.kde.org) Debian servers?

Yes, I used to maintain a few of them. Still maintain a couple of
(non-tycho) externals.

> P.S. you can reply to list, I am subcribed and the reply then still contains 
> the List-Id and stuff :)

I suggest looking at the Mail-Followup-To header.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <[email protected]>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template

_______________________________________________
kde-debian mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-debian

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAC9NQcPClnTztfv0RAmiVAKCDJLMUWleaFaTZ9NcMMXXePsk6DACfegKf
3Xi7bhE1FOvb/m8SRiK5qm8=
=jDFP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----