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Hey, Nick! Good to hear from you again. Yeah, that blog post definitely resonates with me. As I've been learning about Debian packaging, there are so many time

Hey, Nick! Good to hear from you again. Yeah, that blog post definitely resonates with me. As I've been learning about Debian packaging, there are so many times I think, "Oh, why was I reinventing what Debian does really well?" Part of it is also just getting lost in the local maxmium of Ansible. I kept feeling like, "Well, I'm not reinventing the wheel. Ansible has a pre-built module for creating users / installing dependencies / installing services, but then the Debian package manager does it so much better and faster.

nikisweeting 4y ago
Howdy friend! I've loved following your progress with these posts over the years :) Ansible is definitely more ergonomic than Debian packaging still. I hope someday we get a better pipline for deb/pkg that's closer to yaml/declarative-style config that Ansible offers. Despite packaging for deb for 3 years now I still have no clue how to do it by memory, I have to check my own docs every time.