On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Brian May wrote: > the software is far to volatile (e.g. important bug fixes on a weekly basis)
We have a place for such software: experimental > I don't want old versions hanging around any longer then absolutely required We have a place for such software: experimental >. It is also a very narrow market, possibly not of > general interest to the Debian community (this is hard to determine however; > maybe what this needs right now is expanded exposure). We have a lot of obscure software in Debian already, the size of the audience shouldn't matter. > There was also the (slightly confusing) perception in management that they > had to tightly control ownership and distribution, despite it being open > source GPL software, available on github, etc. We probably shouldn't distribute it if upstream doesn't want us to though. > I note the original poster mentioned Ubuntu PPAs and add-apt-repository; my > understanding is that these don't solve the trust issue, I seem to recall > the user is shown a fingerprint and asked to confirm it is correct (based on > what???) - however I don't have an Ubuntu box I can test this on right now. I would guess based on the OpenPGP web of trust or the user's trust in their OS that trusts the SSL CA that signed the Launchpad certs. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6gw_fsko464vsqyncn_5bopn6o5m2u7fdwvj4p+scq...@mail.gmail.com
