On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Andreas Marschke wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:58 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:01:27 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > > > My 2nd suggestion is coming from the Maemo platform (the OS behind > > > the Nokia n900 that is Debian based). In Maemo, there is a "devel" > > > repository that includes apps that aren't necessarily in good shape. The > > > users know that fact when they are adding the repository which contains > > > packages that are not necessarily as tested, and wont complain. > > > > I understand that this new archive area would be "non-offical", but > > still my fear is that users won't distinguish and those packages > > would be considered as "Debian packages" and might have the risk of > > shedding a bad light on Debian quality.
Indeed, I remember some discussions to have something similar to Ubuntu's PPA, the idea could some nice, but when I see a lot of ubuntu users complaining on IRC channels when a PPA package is broken the idea does not sound good. We already have a lot of users getting confuse and taking non-free as a something that is a full part of Debian, having a service that allow $RANDOM quality packages could be taken on the same way. > I'm not a DD but I'm thinking that we could rather utilize experimental > for such things. For one thing it is OBVIOUSLY NOT recommended to use > packages from experimental if all you want is a stable Debian. But it is > still a place to EXPERIMENT with new and yet untested packages. So new > and fresh package maintainers can try themselves out in experimental > rather than cross fingers that enough people found out about this > _unofficial_ repository. > Experimental has already one reason to exists, and this _new_ approach will not suit there. Cheers -- René Mayorga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100612185324.gj29...@debian.org.sv