On 2015-04-19 19:10, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ). I have not >> tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to >> convince APT do install it. > > I did and apt works with ddeb just fine, meaning it can happily > print infos about them, download them and install them with dpkg. > > There are two exceptions as far as I can see: > [... snip minor issues with .ddeb support in various APT tools ...]
For reference, it seems like we will be picking the ".deb" route. So even these (minor) issues are unlikely to be a problem. > > > So, super-cow approves (d)debs. \o/ > (In fact, apt-dbg never became a thing as automatic ddebs were always > "very soon now" in existence every time it came up. This time please…) I certainly intend to follow this all the way. > And it especially approves the debhelper branch name. ;) > I could imagine. :> > > [...] > > btw: Is it planed to drop them into their own repository/component or > are we gone blow up our regular Packages files with them? (you might > guess from the wording which way I would prefer). > > > Best regards > > David Kalnischkies > It is my general understanding that most people would (strongly?) prefer that ddebs were placed in a separate component. I would be surprised if we did ended up including them in the current components. Thanks, ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55545af4.6030...@thykier.net
