richintheflowJun 18
ploum

I believe that Debian   doesn’t communicate enough about the fantastic "extrepo".

It is exactly what Ubuntu tried to do for years with PPA.

You do "sudo extrepo enable librewolf" and, suddenly, @librewolf is part of your Debian.

That’s really nice for a lot of tools (including @signalapp desktop). That makes Debian way larger and more uptodate without relying on flatpaks or manually installed packages.

Hey @ente and @protonprivacy bridge, what about a Debian repository in extrepo?

Jun 17 at 9:49pmWeb
Show threadFlaJun 17

@ploum @librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy

If I may, regarding the big mess that happened to AUR recently, what is the process for a package to be available in that repository?

Show threadploumJun 17

@fla @librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy :

https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data

External repositories team / extrepo-data · GitLab

Debian Salsa Gitlab

GitLab
Show threadZero One Zero Zero 🎬Jun 17
Precisely!
Show threadLux Jun 18
@ploum what's the difference with "sudo apt install librewolf"?
Show threadploumJun 18

@orange_lux : librewolf is not in the debian repository.

If you can install it with apt-get, that’s probably because you enabled it with extrepo first.

Show threadD2Jun 18
@ploum huh, TIL. And (per a couple pages hastily read) apt will add extrepo (and then librewolf) to Mint, kali, and ~20 other deb-derived flavors. Shiny.
Show threadsebsauvage1d ago
@ploum
😯 Why didn't I know about this sooner ?
@librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy
Show threadSuricat1d ago

@sebsauvage ouah quelle belle astuce

@ploum @librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy

Show threadMétaphysicien Douteux20h ago
@Tacitus
@sebsauvage @ploum @librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!!
Show threadVincent Bernat1d ago
@ploum @librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy It's not exactly like PPA. The repositories are not built and hosted on a central platform. Maybe something more akin to PPA is https://debusine.debian.net/ (but extrepo is still needed to discover them).
Main page

Show threadAlbirew1d ago
@ploum HOLY CHEAT!
nice, is there a top list of existing extrepos somewhere?
Show threadploum1d ago
@Albirew : "extrepo search" will list all available ones.
Show threadBohwaZ1d ago
@ploum
Ohhhh nice. Hey @vivaldi you're missing!
Show threadMaël / Akin1d ago
@ploum @librewolf @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy Great #FediTip, gonna get a look at this. A question by the way. We know Debian repository doesn't provide most recent software and in the case of Firefox, the ESR version has been chosen to avoid issues concerning new functionalities.
Librewolf is often criticised for bringing major security updates too late after Firefox publishes them (same as Waterfox, Floorp and any FF fork). So how does it work with Librewolf in Debian ? Is it safe ?
Show threadLibreWolf1d ago

@maelmorin @ploum @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy The Debian LibreWolf repo is directly operated by us, so you get the latest available release directly from our build system.

Our releases happen within hours of the Firefox release. (Assuming they apply to us)

Show threadMaël / Akin1d ago
@librewolf
Great news, thanks. That makes me love Debian more than before. @ploum @signalapp @ente @protonprivacy
Show threadlorenzo1d ago
+1 for @[email protected]

And maybe @[email protected] 💙