debian-multimedia.org considered harmful, Was: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Mar 8 15:09:58 UTC 2012


On 2012-03-08 12:35:53 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2012-03-08, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> > It's worse than that. Security support is non-existent, and users
> > don't know that. An example: [… non-free package …]
> 
> Well, non-free in Debian proper doesn't have security support neither.  But
> then I guess one could argue that users at least know that this is the case,
> don't they?

No, the package was *not* a non-free package, it was in "main".
I did the remark at that time:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/2010/08/msg00082.html

So, again, this is really misleading for the end user.

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