On Feb 10, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:
I agree that such a deb distribution system should not be allowed
to accept debs from just anyone. But, it should be possible to
come up with a short list of people that could contribute debs.
Anyone with cvs access should be eligible to contribute debs. Long-
time package maintainers without cvs access should be eligible to
contribute debs. We wouldn't really need too many people. The
most popular packages would probably be installed on many possible
contributor's machines. We don't need to provide a deb for every
possible package.
This doesn't need to be an official fink server, if the project is
afraid of the liability. For liability reasons, it would probably
be best if the server was not based in the US.
A few months ago, I proposed a system of "voting" for binary debs in
this message on fink-devel:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13763927
The premise was to create a system where trust derives from
commonality of results, kind of like how [EMAIL PROTECTED] does it: if many
people get the same answer it's probably legit. The idea was largely
rejected at the time due the technical complications of getting
identical hashes for the binary debs.
Chris
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