Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-19 Thread Robert Collins
On 20 May 2016 at 05:06, Neil Williams wrote: >> My claim, as I'll outline below, is, if the upstream wants to give the >> user an up-to-date software package, and they have to teach them how >> to add a new archive, they'll give them an archive *they control*, >> because they're now on the hook

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 May 2016 11:46:53 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > [cc'ing devel, since this is a rant that involves technical topics, > and god knows I only go on so many rants a year these days] First off, I have gone down the road of trying to setup apt sources in from the install of another packag

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-19 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
[cc'ing devel, since this is a rant that involves technical topics, and god knows I only go on so many rants a year these days] On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:18:28PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > b) many upstreams appear frustrated about getting their package > officially supported in Debian. Yeah,