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A Week of Bug Reporting
- XorNot 4y agoThis is a distro problem in my opinion. What I as a user want is to keep my distro on the "blessed path" of components. i.e. things installed via packages, able to be rolled back, the whole works. So challenge 1 in 95% of cases is: "try the latest version" - which isn't packaged or available for my distro. If it works, great, maybe? But it's now this ugly thin bolted into my environment. Brittle, maybe breaking other stuff, who knows. If it doesn't - same problem, but getting back to my original environment will be tough. Out of the box on Ubuntu...there is no real system to easily upgrade packages. Which is a damn shame, because with pbuilder and a bunch of scripts (which is easier to use then podman or docker for this - why? Why do we not have a good containerized build tool?) you can get pretty close to this experience. Which is to say though: why isn't this an OotB priority for open-source based platforms? If we want bugs - good bug reports - and code contributed back to the platform, then it needs to be part of the basic way the platform works. It needs to be easy to get the code, build the code, and update the code, and roll it back if it doesn't work. We need less impenetrable packaging tools then the debian system (which isn't bad, once you understand what it's trying to do, but good lord, dgit blackbox helps with a lot of stuff and until I discovered it there was just no hope - and even then, a lot of hours of learning).