This repository contains metadata for external repositories. It is available in a signed format from pages, which can be consumed by tools inside Debian; for instance, extrepo.
To add metadata for your own external repository, please open a merge
request to add a file called repos/debian/<your-repo.yaml>
to
the repository. After vetting, the merge request will then be accepted.
To test that your repository metadata follows the proper format, and
that the repository contains everything the metadata describes, run
tools/check-repos
on your new yaml file, then run tools/validate-repo
on your new yaml file. Note that this will require you to install the
packages libhash-case-perl
, libyaml-libyaml-perl
, libwww-perl
,
and libdistro-info-perl
.
Merge requests are preferably opened by a maintainer or representative of the repository in question, but this is not a strict requirement.
In order to be accepted into this repository, the following rules must be adhered to.
The capitalized words should be interpreted as per RFC2119.
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Packages in external repositories MUST NOT overwrite files from packages in the official Debian repositories, except if their purpose is to provide alternate or more recent versions of software in Debian.
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External repositories MUST be signed.
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External repositories MUST declare their license policy as one of
main
,contrib
, ornon-free
. The definition of these policies is as for Debian's components:- Packages in a component with a
main
policy MUST be DFSG-free, and SHOULD also provide a deb-src type. These packages MUST NOT be built with anything that is not part of the same repository or another one with amain
policy. - Packages in a component with a
contrib
policy MUST be DFSG-free, and MUST also provide a deb-src type. These packages MAY use packages from non-main
repositories - There are no restrictions on packages in a component with a
non-free
policy.
- Packages in a component with a
-
External repositories MUST be maintained; that is, the software in these repositories MUST be updated when an update of the software in question is made available.
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External repositories SHOULD have a way to report bugs with the software in the repository. This bug reporting system does not have to be specific to the Debian packages, however.
The maintainers of the extrepo-data repository reserve the right to update these rules when necessary.
When there is a problem with an external repository (either the repository itself, or a package in the repository), please try to contact the maintainers of the repository in question, first. Information about the repository may be available through the "contact" and/or "bugs" items in the repository's metadata.
If that doesn't work, and/or critical issues exist with the repository, please file an issue against this repository. We will then review it, and if necessary, remove the repository from the metadata.
The files under tools/
are available under the terms of the GPL,
version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
The files under repos
and the file template.yaml
are available under
the CC0 license (that is, public domain). Do with them what you want.