[PureOS] Bits from PureOS | Life in the time of novel corona virus

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

On Fri, 2020-03-20 at 20:12 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Jeremiah C. Foster (2020-03-20 19:39:59)
> > I've been doing some poking at OpenQA from the SuSE folks. It is
> > not 
> > packaged for Debian (though it's core package os-autoinst is).
> > Trying 
> > to get a log in to Debian's instance of OpenQA 
> > https://openqa.debian.net/ leads to some weird site called 
> > microfocus.com. I wonder what relationship that holds to Debian's 
> > infrastructure?
> 
> The domain debian.org contains official Debian services, whereas 
> debian.net contains services related to but not officially Debian.

Thanks Jonas - I completely missed that it was a *.net address.

> 
> > I'll have to dig a little more but I believe that having PureOS
> > tested 
> > there might be a good thing. Kali is tested there as well so it
> > may 
> > save us some disk space and CPU time to have it done there. We'll
> > need 
> > to make sure that it meets the Free Software policies we have and 
> > while OpenQA itself surely does (its GPLv2), we shouldn't have to
> > give 
> > info to a third party to access testing services.
> 
> There are no such guarantees (from Debian, at least) for debian.net 
> services, so you should consult whoever runs that service - and
> beware 
> that it can change, so if you get guarantees from current provider
> then 
> you should probably also setup some checks for the host shifting its 
> provider.

Ah, okay. Thanks again!

Jeremiah