ke4nt1
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Joined: Oct. 2003 |
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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,18:51 |
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Hey folks..
We have survived "Rita" with little or no evidence of a storm, excepting no gas, no bread, no milk, and lots of traffic in this little town of 15,000 ..
I have received dozens of new extensions here in Spetember. Thank you for your contributions to the DSL repository.
Here is my challenge.. Starting in early September, the new policy for accepting extensions went into effect. See wiki page here. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki...._Policy
Most all of the recent submissions are not including any location for source of code or binary for me to verify, in the .info file included with each submission.
This is a very easy fix.. Simply add the location of your source, be it a branch of the Debian repositories, or some website offering the source code from which you compiled your extension, to your included .info file, and resend ( the .info file only).. see the wiki for more details. An example template is provided..
It's really simple to add a few lines in your comments portion of your .info file to allow me to quickly checksum the sources from your included location, or verify binaries, in the submissions, or grab the source, and build/check it. Most extensions I receive are built from the Debian binaries, from the oldstable or stable branch.
This is for everyone's benefit, and while it's a little extra effort on everyone's part, it will help to ensure that the many thousands of DSL users worldwide are not getting tainted or rogue extensions from the mirrors.
Kent
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