[Gambas-user] Launchpad, Debian maybe?

[BB]

On 30/8/23 8:16 pm, Bruce Steers wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Aug 2023, 09:34 BB, <adamnt42 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:adamnt42 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 30/8/23 8:07 am, Bruce Steers wrote:
>>     I was looking at launchpad and see they support Debian
>>     repositories too.
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>>     Could a Debian launchpad be made / used instead?
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>>     Wouldn't it also work for Ubuntu and all the systems it currently
>>     does with Ubuntu being Debian based ?
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>>     Respects
>>     BruceS
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>     The difficulties of binary publications are, as I see it, security
>     security and security.
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>     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.
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>     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.
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>     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.
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>     Nah, I'll stay clear for the moment.
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>     b
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> But already Launchpad is used to create Ubuntu packages and these work 
> on mint and other Ubuntu derivatives.
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> 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?
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> Respects
> BruceS
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What do you mean by "if the launchpad made Debian binaries"? I didn't 
think it actually "made" them, it just published them. Hence my 
distrust, which was just a POV.

No matter.

b

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