Distribution quote of the week

[Posted October 28, 2020 by ris]

I’m just posting some ideas that I came up with while pondering something that, from my perspective, is an area where Debian is clearly failing to meet the needs of some of our users. We know Debian is a popular and respected Linux distribution, and we know people value our stability. However, we also know that people like running Fedora and Ubuntu’s non-LTS releases. People like Arch Linux. Not just “end-users”, but also the people developing the software shipped by the distros themselves. There are a lot of potential contributors to Debian who are kept away by our unwillingness to provide a distro offering both fresh software and security support. I think that we could attract more people to the Debian community if we could provide a solution for these people, and that would ultimately be good for everybody.

— Noah Meyerhans

Distribution quote of the week

Posted Oct 31, 2020 17:09 UTC (Sat) by emorrp1 (guest, #99512) [Link] (2 responses)

I am a happy stable+backports user and keeping an eye on "fasttrack", I think the perception of Debian as "stale" is just outdated. It's an unchanging base system with multiple mechanisms to get the latest software - crucially every user has a different idea about which packages should be latest. Even the "move fast, break things and test in CI" advocating devs use things like lock files and don't like change further down the stack that they don't control. Backports should be expanded even more and be even easier to request from end-users.

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Posted Nov 6, 2020 17:38 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (1 responses)

And I've been a happy testing user for almost 20 years now. It's always been "bleeding edge enough" for me :) (the lack of security support is worrying but any fixes should sooner or later trickle down from unstable anyway)

Distribution quote of the week

Posted Nov 7, 2020 2:54 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Here is a hack to pull in security updates from Debian unstable on Debian testing, I'm using it for several years now:

https://bugs.debian.org/725934

Please note that it relies on the tireless efforts of Salvatore Bonaccorso (carnil) and the rest of the Debian security team in order to label each security update done by the package maintainers as they come in.