Collaborating with distribution packagers is a lot better than maintaining your own repositories. Packagers should always be up to speed with the latest guidelines and best practices for their distribution. I have often seen badly built packages by upstreams.
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Collaborating with distribution packagers is a lot better than maintaining your own repositories. Packagers should always be up to speed with the latest guidelines and best practices for their distribution. I have often seen badly built packages by upstreams.
That's not feasible in a lot of cases. Commercial software, for instance, is not generally welcome in distribution repositories.
No, but running a public repository for a given distribution is the way forward in that case, and that does involve knowing the lay of the land.
Which is exactly what I said in my previous comment.
Which is what I was agreeing with. Vociferously :-)