Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE people...

[Benjamin]

On 15 Dec 2014 08:26, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>> On Dec 14, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>>> > On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Robert C. Helling <
robert at euve10195.vserver.de> wrote:
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>>> > Hi,
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>>> >> Am 15.12.2014 um 02:03 schrieb Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:
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>>> >> I need to do a clean Debian install in a VM and test our .deb. Based
on what Pedro said this might be all we need.
>>> >
>>> > I have been a Debian user for years and often enough there was no
Debian package but one for Ubuntu. So I downloaded it and installed it
manually. The only problem with that is that it does not update
automatically. The user has to realize there is a new version, download
that and install. It does not come with
>>> >
>>> > apt-get update
>>> > Apt-get upgrade
>>>
>>> Oh, interesting observation. It would be easy to add this to our
internal update check, though…
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>>> I wish I had started working on this a little earlier… but there’s
always so much to do and not enough time :-/
>>>
>> We can have our own private repository for Debian and instruct users to
add that manually to their system. After that, adding a new package
requires re-generating the Packages and other metadata files for the
repository and signing it. Then the Subsurface updates come with normal
apt/aptitude updates from our own repo in  subsurface-divelog.org. I have
built such a setup before can grab the "script" later today.
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> I’d love to have us look into this.
> I know several packages that ask users to add a repository on Fedora, so
this doesn’t seem excessive
> And it would automate the update as people are used to… I assume we could
do a release repo and a daily repo, just as we do on Ubuntu…
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> /D
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Are the two (Debian and Ubuntu) now so different that the same
package/repository can't be used for both?
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