New debian-mentors Public .deb Repository Available

JohnKFisher writes "For anyone who has ever put together a .deb package, but didn't want to bother with the hassle of setting up their own repository, or trying to get your package added to the official one, the Public Package Repository is up and running. I wonder if this means someone can finally add a version of KDE not dating from late in the Carter administration."

VERY useful

[Taral]

This is a nice way of hosting packages when someone doesn't have the space to put up their own apt-repository. If it's searchable, that's a bonus.

It remains to be seen exactly what kinds of packages will end up here. At least it still requires a DD sponsor, so hopefully poorly-packaged/broken packages will not end up here...

Debian: abandon ship?

[Anonymous Coward]

A few days ago, David Wright posted a message to the Debian-user list, questioning the wisdom of Debian's decision to target 11 architectures. He pointed out (with supporting references) that this decision has contributed to a long delay in releasing Woody; of course, other people have said this before.

The main result was that a small number of Debian insiders posted abusive comments in response to David's perfectly reasonable message. (The thread, in case you missed it, has the subject "This post is not off-topic".)

With hindsight, it's clear that trying to support too many architectures was a mistake.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly said that he who never made a mistake, never made anything.

But what separates the doers from the wannabes is the ability to admit a mistake, change direction, and move on.

If the people in effective control of Debian's direction no longer have this ability, then perhaps Debian is no longer useful to most of us.

To save the Debian Attack Team the effort of a search, I'll admit immediately that (like most Debian users) I've contributed nothing to Debian except good intentions and trivial amounts of money. Debian does not need me. And I need a stable release with the 2.4 kernel.

Not Gentoo

[RiverTonic]

That's great news. Now it seems that I don't have to move to Gentoo to get some very recent packages.

FYI: This [apt-get.org] is also a good please to find your deb-packages.