One interesting thing about Ubuntu is that you can follow on launchpad the bug presents in the packages of the distribution, see the progress and contribute to testing PPA on your Ubuntu installation and giving feedback back. But let see this process in detail and how each of us can help the community. Launchpad, developed […]
Jan 222013
NEWS: 03- Feb 2013 Sites GetDeb.net, PlayDeb.net and repository up again, from G+
Fortunately, we did have an up-to-date backup of the old server at the end. The last days I was busy to get everything set up. The sites are up again and you should be able to browse the packages (none should be lost) as well as to use the repository as usual. If you have problems be sure that “dig screenshots.getdeb.net” outputs “208.113.160.150”
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A sad day indeed for many users of the .deb format, 2 of my favourites repositories getdeb and playdeb are now closed forever (?), this is the message posted on G+ by their author:
After the server crash where also the GetDeb and PlayDeb database was lost and given the fact that GetDeb and PlayDeb now have too many packages to be handled as a one-man-project I decided to discontinue GetDeb and PlayDeb.
In the last years I have spent so many hours in the project that now it is just too much for me to maintain beside my usual job.But this does not mean that all the work in GetDeb and PlayDeb is lost.
