On Tuesday 11 June 2013 15:14:51 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 > > Alan Ianson <agian...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > > > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at > > > > deb-multimedia.org? > > > > > > Yes, it is, alas. > > > I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister > > > "The deb-multimedia repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy > > > system" It took me sevaral days to get rid of the mess introduced > > > by this repo. > > > > > > I'll then have to install Ubuntu (at least as a virtual > > > machine), as it is difficult nowadays to live without some packages > > > which are missing in Debian. > > > > What mess did this repo make? I have been using deb-multimedia for > > years and have never had any mess. > > The latest Debian Project News email had this: > ---------- > Expiration of debian-multimedia.org > ----------------------------------- > > debian-multimedia.org was a popular unofficial repository of Debian > packages. Last year, this service moved to a new domain, and despite > efforts from Debian, the debian-multimedia.org domain recently expired, > and has now been registered by someone unknown to Debian. "This is a > good example of the importance of the use of cryptography to secure APT > repositories", DPL Lucas Nussbaum said [9]. The Debian project would > like to emphasise the need to consider possible security issues when > using third-party repositories and the importance of not blindly adding > keys to the APT keyring. > > 9: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00000.html > ---------- > > Cybe R. Wizard > -- > Nice computers don't go down. > Larry Niven, Steven Barnes > "The Barsoom Project"
The Marillat repository has not moved or changed owner or expired. It has changed its URL at Debian's request, and is now called http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ . debian-multimedia.org is in Russian, and seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with software. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201306111725.28583.lisi.re...@gmail.com
