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  On 2025-11-03 13:22:28 +0100 (+0100), David Kalnischkies wrote: 
 > > apt-ftparchive, an aging tool, which as far as I know sees its only 
 > > serious usage by your employer in the form of Launchpad, right? 
 > 
 > A quick sidebar: what more modern alternatives do folks recommend? For 
 years 
 > (decades?) I've used apt-ftparchive release, followed by gpg --clear-sign 
 of 
 > InRelease, for a quick command-line solution to create small personal 
 > secure-APT compatible Debian package repositories. Is there something else 
 > similarly simple these days? 
  
 fwiw I wasn't saying that people have to stop using, nor that it will 
 disappear any time soon. It is too useful for src:apt for testing – 
 and just like src:apt also includes an HTTP server that I constantly 
 use in place of `python -m http.server`, it's not particular hard to 
 keep `apt-ftparchive` around for personal use. Just don't expect that 
 any development that is not directly motivated by testing/personal 
 usage will happen or that it will get somehow "user-friendly". 
  
  
 But apt-ftparchive has the option to use BDB (= Berkeley DB) for caching 
 and while I still believe it wouldn't be too hard to change to another 
 DB (minus the probably hard part of vacillating a transition), I don't 
 see it happen any time soon. At least I don't see why I should do it & 
 so did nobody else in the last 12 years [0]  (also: #1119193). 
  
  
 That said, by all means, feel free to seek and use alternatives. 
 I am not able to offer any advice through. 
 Just trying to clarify the status of it, as I see it, 
 to avoid misunderstandings. 
  
  
 Best regards 
  
 David Kalnischkies 
  
 [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/07/msg00132.html 
  
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