Comment 9 for bug 218086
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| Savvas Radevic (medigeek) wrote Re: [Bug 218086] Re: cannot proceed through dist-upgrade if using unsigned PPA packages | #9 |
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> I don't get this aversion to third-party repositories. Surely it should
> be at least possible for third-party repositories to provide the
> appropriate packages to ease an upgrade? And if so, why on earth would
> we want to prevent them from doing that?
Because:
a) they are third-party repositories, not used in Ubuntu and not
supported officially.
b) they can and probably will create problems while upgrading.
c) people usually report the problems of the third-party repositories
and connect it to Ubuntu packages and forget to mention that they even
use third-party software. This can be really confusing for the
developers and the bug squad.
However, I'm just providing my opinion about this, I'm not an official
representative - Ubuntu might has a different stand on this :)