Hello,

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 22:21, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 09:16:05 pm LI Daobing wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:09, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 09:05:25 pm LI Daobing wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:00, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> >> > On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 01:29:46 pm Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> >> >> Ubuntu Tweak is waiting for approval in New queue.
>> >> >> http://ubuntu-tweak.com/
>> >> >> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/252140
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is this something MOTU wants included?
>> >> >
>> >> > No.
>> >> >
>> >> > It looks to me like something that, in addition to proper packaging,
>> >> > ought to have a thorough functional review before entering the
>> >> > archive.
>> >>
>> >> I am the packager of ubuntu-tweak, can you tell me what's the problem
>> >> with ubuntu-tweak?
>> >
>> > I don't know that there is a problem, but given the invasive nature of
>> > it's functionality, I think it appropriate for it to be given more of a
>> > review than just being packaged properly.  In Ubuntu's history there
>> > have been multiple "Tweak" programs and so far they have always proved
>> > to be more harmful than helpful at the scale the Ubuntu archive
>> > operates.
>> >
>> > This one may be the one that gets it right, but having found that they
>> > rebrand PPAs that other people maintain as there's on their web site,
>> > I'm not at all inclined to assume this is all well intentioned.
>>
>> you are right.
>>
>> this package is active-maintained, and I'll forward your opinion to
>> the upstream author. I think he'll fix this bug.
>>
>> ubuntu-tweak is very useful for me, and it's also has many users. so I
>> want to push it to Ubuntu and hope it can catch ubuntu 10.10.
>>
>> thanks.
>
> I don't have a lot of time for a detailed review.  A quick look shows that
> this can enable quite a number of untrusted repositories.  My recollection is
> that we although Envy was initially accepted doing something similar it was
> required to be fixed to not do this.  I don't think a package that adds
> untrusted repositories is suitable.

ubuntu-tweak does not add any ppa to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ by
default. this only happens when user ask it do.

the add-apt-repository command in python-software-properties package
also can add ppa to sources.list, so I don't think ubuntu will reject
software like this.

-- 
Best Regards
LI Daobing

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