{"id":218,"date":"2006-11-14T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-11-14T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T13:23:36","slug":"when-ubuntu-users-discover-that-unofficial-repositories-can-be-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"When Ubuntu users discover that unofficial repositories can be harmful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial APT repositories are a PITA in the Ubuntu community. Most users use stable release (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=206\">see previous post about that<\/a>) since Ubuntu development releases tend to be much more bleeding edge than Debian unstable. But users still want the newest software, so they use unofficial repositories. There are lots of posts about private repositories on <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.ubuntu-fr.org\/\">Planet.ubuntu-fr.org<\/a>, and it seems to be the same on other local planets.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, somebody posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/3v1n0.tuxfamily.org\/blog\/lista-repository-sourceslist-ottimizzata-per-ubuntu-kubuntu-linux\/\">sources.list file with a huge list of unofficial repositories<\/a>. The maintainer of one of these repositories, <a href=\"http:\/\/johan.kiviniemi.name\/\">J\u00ce\u00bfhan Kiviniemi<\/a>, was surprised to be in this list without even being contacted first. He chose a good answer: he uploaded a package with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trevi55\/296804891\/\">cool new default wallpapers<\/a>. He also wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/soijabanaani.net\/tmp\/the_trevino_story\">a detailed explanation<\/a>, with which I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>But this story raises a question: why do all these people work on their unofficial repositories, instead of filing and fixing bugs, improving the official packages, and getting their packages into Ubuntu ? It&#8217;s a shame that so much manpower is lost on such stuff.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Johan Kiviniemi seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/johan.kiviniemi.name\/stuff\/python-ruby\/\">a lot of good opinions<\/a>. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial APT repositories are a PITA in the Ubuntu community. Most users use stable release (see previous post about that) since Ubuntu development releases tend to be much more bleeding edge than Debian unstable. But users still want the newest software, so they use unofficial repositories. There are lots of posts about private repositories on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}