Re: feature request

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 12/13/11 13:46, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:42:54PM +0000, Michael Stevens wrote:
>> I think the minimum you could do would be to provide an official .deb
>> package, but for automatic updates setting up an apt repository is
>> probably the thing to do.
> 
> I think Colin has already done more than the minimum by providing the
> control files with the tarball. I'm not a debian expert either, but
> doesn't 'dpkg -b' make you a .deb file that you can install? I'd
> (personally) rather have Colin spending his time on tarsnap then on
> maintaining repos for every Linux distro.

For the record, I'm not expecting to provide binaries in the near future,
whether for Debian or any other platform -- there's other issues which are
much higher priority.  But I'm still interested in understanding the issues
involved better so that I'll be able to do this when the time comes.

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Colin Percival
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