Hi, On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? What whould you do to > support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to > integrate them into official Debian structure?
All unofficial archives serve a purpose, but they are not all compatible with Debian's primary goals. I'm all in favor of integrating backports.org in a dedicated section "<codename>/updates". The rules that govern backports.org are already very similar to the usual Debian rules, so it shouldn't be a technical problem. And we certainly have many users who want to run some specific new upstream version of a small list of software. We should however advertise clearly the limitations of that section if we're not able to offer the same level of commitment than we do for our main repository. I'm also interested in the integration of the volatile repository but it looks like something is already in preparation... :-) $ getent group volatile volatile:x:1222:aba,zobel The problem with debian-multimedia is AFAIK mainly license-related problems and since Christian Marilalt is DD, I hope that he already tries to integrate every bit that can be integrated into Debian proper. I've never used debian-unofficial, but as I browse the site I see the name of Daniel Baumann which is also a DD, so it looks like to face a similar situation than debian-multimedia. Supporting new repositories imply several changes that concerns primarily the ftp-masters. If they don't have the time to add the required support, I'd support the setup of a second dak installation accessible to volunteers where they can implement the required changes and at the same time prove to ftpmasters that they are capable, and can be considered as new members of the team. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
