Debian Gets Its Own PPA-Like System as Debusine Repositories Launch
Debian developers now have an official way to publish and test add-on package repositories, as the Debusine project has opened its repository feature in public beta.
The new service, available at debusine.debian.net, allows Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers to create APT-compatible repositories that function similarly to the well-known Ubuntu’s PPAs but are built specifically for the Debian ecosystem.
Debusine itself is a relatively new project within Debian’s infrastructure. It was introduced publicly at DebConf and has been developed to modernize and unify Debian’s internal workflows for package building, testing, and quality assurance. Until now, much of this work has taken place behind the scenes. With the launch of repositories in beta, Debusine is becoming directly usable for day-to-day development tasks.
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Debussy
Does any other distro have their own flavor of bussy?
Fedora is certainly fussy.
Fedussy
You already posted copypasta about this, two days ago, and it's still false.
Only Debian developers and Debian maintainers can create a Debusine repository. That’s not “PPA-like” in any practical way. The value of Personal Package Archives (PPAs) is that anyone can create them.
Not really? From this page, all it looks like you need is a salsa.debian.org account. They call this being a "Debian developer", but registration on Debian Salsa is open to anybody, and you can just sign up.
Once you have an account, you can use Debian's Debusine normally. I don't really see how this is any different from being required to create an Ubuntu/Launchpad account for a PPA. This is really just pedantic terminology, Debian considers anybody who contributes to their distro in any way to be a "Debian Developer", whereas Ubuntu doesn't.
If you don't want to create an account, you can self host debusine — except it looks like you can't self host the server that powers PPA's. I consider this to be a win for Debusine.
According to the Debian Wiki, merely having a salsa account is not sufficient.
Edit, to address the last line in your comment:
The value of Ubuntu's PPA service is it gives anyone a managed and hosted repository and a multi-architecture build farm, for free, so you don't have to self-host. Self-hosting Debusine would not be comparable.
If a self-hosted Debian repository is all you want, that has been possible forever, using any of a variety of tools.
Debían developer is a specific position that you apply for. Anyone can be a maintainer. Well, I had to get approved but I don't know the qualifications, I already had code in Debían vía GNOME.
PPAs tend to be really dangerous
Well ig I did post a Phoronix article on it a few days ago, but in any case these aren't "copypasta" these are reputable outlets publishing this, I just copy the first couple paragraphs of the article for posting.
So, if you have a problem with how these reputable linux news outlets are publishing it, you'll have to take it up with them. I'm not personally writing these articles lmfao
By copypasta, I meant that you are bulk copying posts from other communities.
And apparently with no regard for the veracity of what you're re-posting.
Oh, you're referring to the crossposting from .ml comms because of their authoritarian ideology (see below)
That doesn't apply here though, nearly all of the linux content I post is sourced and posted independently
::: spoiler Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
Yo, I remember a post about you getting mass banned
Lol you shouldn't believe random posts, I haven't been banned from any instances except .ml, for obvious reasons
Was researching sitting up a Jellyfin server and it said Debian is best choice. Is that true?
You can pretty much set it and forget it with Debian. If memory serves, Jellyfin is available through extrepo, so super easy to set up.
I run Debian on my little laptop server (Nextcloud, Immich, and Radicale) and it works great. Lots of people say that Debian is really stable, which is good for these kind of things I think.
Also, almost all tutorials about setting up stuff on Ubuntu will work with Debian too! Very useful when setting up Nextcloud...
Really I set it up on my laptop and it works, but got steps on settings up Nextcloud and the rest?
Immich I set up using the docs mostly
I set my Nextcloud up with a tutorial by "LearnLinuxTV" (the one I watched was for Ubuntu, but I think he recently released a newer one for Debian)
I can't say whether it's the best or not but my Debian VM with Jellyfin Server has been working well for a few years without hiccups.
In my opinion yes, Debian is the best choice for server machines, especially on the homelab scale.