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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 5 points 2 hours 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 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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

[-] who@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] cm0002@no.lastname.nz 1 points 2 hours ago

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

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 18 points 7 hours ago
[-] three@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Does any other distro have their own flavor of bussy?

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Fedora is certainly fussy.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Was researching sitting up a Jellyfin server and it said Debian is best choice. Is that true?

[-] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

In my opinion yes, Debian is the best choice for server machines, especially on the homelab scale.

[-] EmK@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

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.

[-] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago

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.

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