[DC LoCo] deb with /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list file in it

[Kevin Cole]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:56, Ken Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quick background: Sun Microsystems (SMI) developed a Java continuous
> integration (CI) application called Hudson.  Oracle bought SMI and for
> reasons I won't discuss here a fork of Hudson called Jenkins now exists.
>
> Main issue: Jenkins has an APT repository.  One of the items in the jenkins
> deb package is the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list file
>
> $ dpkg -L jenkins | grep jenkins.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list
>
> How do people feel about this practice?
>

My feeling is similar to Matt and Parrish, with the added caveat that it's
always a good idea to let your recipients know you're gonna pull that stunt
BEFORE actually doing that.  Google tells you on at least one of their pages
that if you install the package, it will add a repository.
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