[Gambas-user] Launchpad, Debian maybe?

[Bruce Steers]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023, 09:34 BB, <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 30/8/23 8:07 am, Bruce Steers wrote:
>
> I was looking at launchpad and see they support Debian repositories too.
>
> Could a Debian launchpad be made / used instead?
>
> Wouldn't it also work for Ubuntu and all the systems it currently does
> with Ubuntu being Debian based ?
>
> Respects
> BruceS
>
> ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----
>
> The difficulties of binary publications are, as I see it, security
> security and security.
>
> The launchpad instance would have to be secure in and of itself. I remain
> to be convinced that this has been achieved yet. The number of recent
> attacks on distro download sites would indicate that even widely used
> download technology is not hardened enough.
>
> The administrators of the launchpad would need to be provably totally
> honest and transparent. In addition there should be either a "benevolent
> dictator" to oversee *any* change to the binaries and the underlying
> source or a fairly sizeable group of security conscious commandos keeping a
> watch on changes.
>
> Pundits (of the internet type) suggest that the source code for the
> binaries be made unavailable to lessen the chances of malicious subterfuge.
> Which sort of defeats the purpose, I think.
>
> Nah, I'll stay clear for the moment.
>
> b
>

But already Launchpad is used to create Ubuntu packages and these work on
mint and other Ubuntu derivatives.

I just wondered if the launchpad made Debian binaries instead of Ubuntu
then would they still work on Ubuntu and mint as well as Debian and all
other Debian derivatives?

Respects
BruceS
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/attachments/20230830/f3e40d08/attachment.htm>