On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:14:51 -0500 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 > ----------
I saw that, looks like some cyber squatter took the old domain over. Christian Marrilat is a debian developer and works on a number of things for debian aside from d.m.o. How he manages all the stuff he does is beyond me but I appreciate all that he has done for debian and it's users. -- 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/20130611105352.477d4...@debian.ok.shawcable.net
