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> If a Debian pkg maintainer releases a new version, there is no guarantee that it doesn't break some other functionality. Simply patching without putting serio
by ownagefool 11y ago
> If a Debian pkg maintainer releases a new version, there is no guarantee that it doesn't break some other functionality. Simply patching without putting serious work into it is the trait of community distros like Debian and Fedora.
That seems like an unfair statement. Debian is a stable distro and I'd say has a pretty good track record of doing what it does. It seems disingenuous to suggest they're patching willy nilly.
- m4r71n 11y agoI did not mean to belittle the efforts of package maintainers, most of which are people who don't get paid for it and do it out of their own volition (which I applaud!). They definitely put hours upon hours into improving the software that is shipped in Debian (or any other community distro for that matter). But you cannot argue that the efforts of a single maintainer compare to the effort of a dedicated engineering team, QA team, and a release engineering team of an enterprise company (Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat), whose only job is to assure that every single bug is patched correctly.
- ownagefool 11y agoWell of course, but debian isn't developed by a single maintainer, there's about 260 active maintainers and I believe well over 1000 contributors per year. Either way, I don't think we should compare either on anything other than what they produce. You're free to think Ubuntu providers a better distro but please base it on something that isn't meta such as number of paid employees, because that does a disservice to those who give up their free time.