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  • A question about "non official" debian packages

    From Albert van der Horst@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 3 16:50:01 2022
    Dear mentors,
    I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages.

    The format is ideal for my users to install, and the .deb format takes care of installing .info files at the right place, something I find impossible to do.

    Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to publish these packages?
    (And what are the sanctions?)

    Groetjes Albert

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  • From Andrey Rahmatullin@21:1/5 to Albert van der Horst on Thu Mar 3 17:30:02 2022
    On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote:
    Dear mentors,
    I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages.

    The format is ideal for my users to install, and the .deb format takes care of installing .info files at the right place, something I find impossible to do.

    Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to publish these packages?
    No, you may do anything you want.

    (And what are the sanctions?)
    Huh?

    --
    WBR, wRAR

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  • From Ali Mezgani@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 3 17:40:01 2022
    Rahmatullin,

    I remember you and I remember you contributions.

    On 03/03/2022, at 17:27, Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote:
    Dear mentors,
    I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages.

    The format is ideal for my users to install, and the .deb format takes care of installing .info files at the right place, something I find impossible to do.

    Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to publish these packages?
    No, you may do anything you want.

    (And what are the sanctions?)
    Huh?

    There are no sanction as well as sanctions of community.

    --
    WBR, wRAR

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  • From Geert Stappers@21:1/5 to Ali Mezgani on Thu Mar 3 18:00:01 2022
    On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 05:29:47PM +0100, Ali Mezgani wrote:
    On 03/03/2022, at 17:27, Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote:
    Dear mentors,
    I plan to publish (at least) 4 Debian packages.

    The format is ideal for my users to install, and the .deb format
    takes care of installing .info files at the right place,
    something I find impossible to do.

    Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format
    to publish these packages?
    No, you may do anything you want.

    (And what are the sanctions?)
    Huh?

    Yeah, I had also a hard time with understanding the by the way question.
    I allow myself to read / to understand the original question as:

    May I publish software in the Debian packaging format outside Debian?


    There are no sanction as well as sanctions of community.


    Please be aware of trademarks and reputation.


    Groeten
    Geert Stappers
    DD
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  • From Michael Stehmann@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 3 22:30:01 2022
    Hello,

    there are a lot of packages in deb format published outside the Debian community (esp. by some distributions, but also by some so called
    upstream projects).

    The deb format is an open standard.

    But there are some differences between Debian packages and packages
    using the deb format.

    So it may be usefull (but not easy) to study what a Debian package
    really is. It increases the quality.

    Kind regards
    Michael, who is still studying how to package software for Debian

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Albert van der Horst on Fri Mar 4 01:20:02 2022
    On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 16:30 +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote:

    Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to
    publish these packages?

    While it is fine to publish .deb packages outside of Debian, it is
    usually better for everyone and recommended by Debian to get them
    included in Debian itself. Take a look at this if you are interested:

    https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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  • From Albert van der Horst@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 5 17:10:01 2022
    Op 04-03-2022 01:10 schreef Paul Wise <[email protected]>:


    On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 16:30 +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote:

    Is it frowned upon by the Debian community to use the .deb format to publish these packages?

    While it is fine to publish .deb packages outside of Debian, it is
    usually better for everyone and recommended by Debian to get them
    included in Debian itself. Take a look at this if you are interested:

    https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/

    I tried it and failed. I leave it to others to do the red taping if and when the packages get notoriety.


    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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