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.
The value of Personal Package Archives (PPAs) is that anyone can create them.
Only Debian developers and Debian maintainers can create a Debusine repository. That’s not “PPA-like” in any practical way.
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.
What’s up with this project being hosted on debian. net , what’s with that knockoff address?
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianNet
It’s an official Debian address, and the main page redirects to .org. I think it has more broad use now, but I think it’s often been used for stuff like media codecs they can’t include in the main distro. Often used for side projects.
makes sense, thank you
