On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Graham Cobb wrote:
On Monday 22 March 2010 11:20:53 Benoît HERVIER wrote:
Because it ll be not be maintained anymore, and new versions will be
publish only on my own repository. But as HAM, ignore packet as my
repository isn't in the ham trusted list, there is here a conflict.
You are well aware of my views so I won't repeat them here. But I still don't
understand what you achieve by not using extras-devel? I understand the
frustration with the Extras process but what do you achieve by having your
own repository except limit your distribution even further by making it even
less likely anyone can find your apps? Why not put them in extras-devel and
not bother to promote them if you don't like the promotion process?
I just don't see how using your own repository is actually any **better** than
just using extras-devel?
There are a few problems with extras-devel:
- There are way too many warnings all over the place (mailing list,
wiki, talk), so some users might be be reluctant to use this
repository.
- Some of the warnings are true, so asking people to use this repositort
might expose them to unwanted updates.
- autobuilder is too limited - currently you can't compile packages that
depend on versions in PR1.1.
- You can't easily remove a package from extras-devel. (Or maybe at all?
I asked for a package to be removed two weeks ago. It is still there).
- Using extras-devel might lock packages, preventing users that install
packages from this repository to later update them from another
repository.
That said, I prefer to have my packages available both in my repository
and in extras-devel, when it is possible.
--
Matan.
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