[BRLTTY] no .deb at mielke.cc/brltty ? Was:Re: brltty 4.1: doesn't work

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Dave Mielke, le Tue 10 Nov 2009 11:47:47 -0500, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2009/11/10 at 16:58 +0100]
> >http://packages.debian.org/brltty
> >http://packages.ubuntu.com/brltty
> >
> >We can also ask backports.org to build newer versions of brltty for
> >older versions of Debian.
> 
> There are a lot of packages. Perhaps the best solution is to just put links on 
> brltty's download page to these sites, or do you think copying the files would 
> be better?
> 
> There was also Aldo's idea. Is there a way for us to have a brltty-only repo 
> (or whatever Debian calls it) so that a user could point to something on 
> brltty's web site which would respond as a Debian package site would but just 
> for brltty, preferably causing the upgrading user to download the actual brltty 
> packages from Debian's site?

It's very easy to setup a repository, yes, a Makefile containing

all:
        dpkg-scanpackages . . | tee Packages | gzip > Packages.gz

is all you need.  Putting the debs on backports.org is however the
canonical solution, so if somebody takes the time to build backported
packages he should rather put them there.

Samuel