[tahoe-dev] download statistics Re: [tahoe-lafs] #769: debian 'sid' package fails to run: pycryptopp-0.5.15 not available in debian form

[Shawn Willden]

On Sunday 26 July 2009 01:34:16 am Black Dew wrote:
> > I don't know anything about PPAs for Ubuntu.  Why are they better
> > than the apt repos hosted by allmydata.org?

I think the only thing that might be "better" about PPAs is that more Ubuntu 
users are familiar with the PPAs.  The process of using one is identical, 
though (add to sources.list, install).

> I don't know how it works in Ubuntu, but the benefit of getting tahoe
> (and dependencies) into Debian proper (if someone is wiling to do it)
> would be automatic building and testing for every platform supported
> by debian (an that's a lot of platforms :P) on debian's official
> buildd's.

And getting it into Debian makes it much easier to get it into Ubuntu proper.

	Shawn.