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racoq
January 12th, 2009, 09:20 PM
Interesting interview given by GetDeb Founder, Joćo Pinto:

Interview in English (http://translate.google.pt/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pplware.com%2F2009%2F 01%2F12%2Fentrevista-a-joao-pinto-getdeb%2F&sl=pt&tl=en&hl=pt-PT&ie=UTF-8)

Interview in Portuguese (http://www.pplware.com/2009/01/12/entrevista-a-joao-pinto-getdeb/)


I quote an interesting view:



(...) The Ubuntu repositories in their offers thousands of programs easily installable, although repositories aim at maximum stability, ie, once leaving a final version of Ubuntu, the programs available for this version no longer be updated, are only made security fixes or serious defects. Although the objective is the maintenance of a system as stable as possible, ie where there is no possibility of introducing new problems, this policy ultimately limit many people


Do you think that GetDeb is important for the end user, and adresses the limitation of the outdated software on ubuntu repositories?
zekopeko
January 12th, 2009, 09:25 PM
well getdeb is a nice site. but i'm hearing devs saying that getdeb packages aren't the best. and the getdeb packagers tend to go against the wishes of devs by packaging unstable version of packages. This only brings problems for devs and tarnishes the image of the program.
Majorix
January 12th, 2009, 09:25 PM
The translation sucks :/
racoq
January 13th, 2009, 12:00 AM
well getdeb is a nice site. but i'm hearing devs saying that getdeb packages aren't the best. and the getdeb packagers tend to go against the wishes of devs by packaging unstable version of packages. This only brings problems for devs and tarnishes the image of the program.

I was the other day talking with Joćo Pinto, and he builds the packages the old fashion way, that is manually with debconf.

And i think that he follows the guidelines for building packages provided by ubuntu.

As for the packages being unstable, some times they correct bugs that versions included on the official repositories do have.

So, i don't think i agree with those claims.


The translation sucks :/

Not so bad, dispite that question that Says Canada, and Should Be Portugal. The rest of the interview is understandable. Blame google translation :)