Debian Gets Its Own PPA-Like System as Debusine Repositories Launch (linuxiac.com)

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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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[-] who@feddit.org 12 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] cm0002@no.lastname.nz -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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