---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Use of backports.org Date: Monday 01 May 2006 12:14 From: René van Bevern <rvb@debian.org> To: pvaneynd@debian.org Hi Peter, I just sent below message to cl-debian@common-lisp.net to find out that my mailserver is blocked by the SORBS blacklist (for whatever reason) and common-lisp.net does not take it for that reason. The admin seems to think that an SORBS is the one and only truth, but they even want money to get one delisted and they even blacklist major German ISPs... %-) So I have to address you privately. Maybe you can forward this message to the list. ;-) René --------- Hi, currently we use the people.debian.org repository of Peter for backported packages for Common Lisp. There is a more central place for Debian backports available: http://backports.org and I think we should be using this one. So, what benefits am I seeing from this? The major argument for me is that backports.org is autobuilt. The backports of SBCL and other implementations in Peter's repository are only for i386, but users of other architectures might as well be interested in a SBCL backport. (in particular: myself ;-) ) Fortunately, most of the CL libraries are architecture independent, but some are not. Additionally: backports.org is mirrored across multiple places and users that want to use backports of different packages only need to use one repository in their sources.list. So, this is not meant to sound demanding, I am only asking for opinions on this. I started preparing packages of dh-lisp, common-lisp-controller and sbcl for Backports.org and I'd upload them, so that the basic layer to build the CL-Debian suite is available. [1] I am going continue backporting more packages and possibly reducing some load from Peter, who otherwise backports all the packages for his backport in the URLs below:repository. René [1] In about a week, after my return from LinuxTag. So, if anybody on this list is attending the event and wants to talk about Lisp, come to the Debian booth: http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxTag2006 -- René van Bevern <rvb@debian.org> http://progn.org http://www.debian.org http://www.pro-linux.de ------------------------------------------------------- Groetjes, Peter -- signature -at- pvaneynd.mailworks.org http://www.livejournal.com/users/pvaneynd/ "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr | "God is more forgiving." Dave Aronson|