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Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev

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Colin Watson announced that Debusine repositories are now available in beta form, which can be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian Linux. This comes down to being similar in nature to Personal Package Archives (PPAs) that are popular with Ubuntu Linux.

Debusine repositories are now available in beta form as add-on repositories to the main Debian archive to help in facilitating experimental packages, testing purposes, or toying with other changes to Debian but at least not for now trying to land the changes into the main Debian archive.

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this.

I’m very squeamish about adding more than the bare minimum external repos, though less so about extrepo stuff. I’m honestly worried this is just going to make it very easy for people to find new ways to break their systems; then again, that may be less likely to happen for the user demographic of Debian, and in the end, that’s no reason not to add a feature this convenient.