[Wolves] Deb source

Matt Wright wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Apr 30 16:17:00 2003


On Wednesday 30 April 2003 2:52 pm, Aquarius wrote:
> Matt Wright spoo'd forth:
> > I got bored today and started a small deb source. I regularly need odd
> > packages that aren't in debs stable source. As I'm having a concerted
> > effort to avoid testing/unstable I've built the odd package I've needed
> > from source. Although some packages are effectively compiled from
> > 'testing' sources I prefer it over using testing.
> >
> > Anyway theres not a lot here at the moment, just lame (as its patent
> > problems stop it getting into deb) and k3b - A kde3 cd burner which Ron
> > suggested to me. Also theres cdrdao as its not got from testing to stable
> > yet and k3b relies on it.
>
> Not wishing to decry your hard work, but you do know about www.apt-get.org,
> right? Lists unofficial aptable Debian repositories, and all your named
> packages (lame, k3b, etc) are in there...
>
> Aq.

Didn't know about it however it's keep my extra sources down to a minimum, 
also serves as a platform to get used to dpkg-buildpackage and friends.

Matt