Comment 6 for bug 188564

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Damiano Dallatana (damidalla) wrote :

Well, I was following the eternal discussion about "Ubuntu is not giving back to Debian", and I really think that if Canonical makes a part of one of his best products - Launchpad PPAs - available to Debian community, well, it would be a great and symbolic step ahead.
As for Debian high standards, I think that a centralized place for publishing deb repositories should be a "better standard" - in terms of build control and packages quality - to the myriad of debian repositories around the web.
I am not a developer, but if we want to "keep an eye" on better quality once more, why not making an (optional) lintian check on deb packages on PPAs - giving the PPA owner the possibility of certifying (i repeat, optionally) the formal quality of the published packages.
It's not a proposal about forcing Debian use Launchpad or PPA, but about giving Debian developers a pool of servers where he can build his packages. If openSUSE gives that possibility ( http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Deb_builds - even if it's without repositories), why do we have to show less commitment to Debian than openSuse does?

Sorry for the long post, I wanted to clearly give my two little cents.