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> What does a maintainer realistically do? Debian maintainers have to coax upstream packages to behave like other Debian packages and use supported linked depe
by sangnoir 2y ago
> What does a maintainer realistically do?
Debian maintainers have to coax upstream packages to behave like other Debian packages and use supported linked dependencies. This covers everything from log and config file locations, startup scripts patching dependencies to match the versions supported by the release, backporting security updates, and documenting.
I trust Debian (and in turn Debian maintainers) more than I trust the upstream developer of lib-random-4-dev. I only ever had to build a custom package from source a handful of times.
- homebrewer 2y agoSimpler packaging formats like pkgbuild and apkbuild do all of that too. They're easier to use because they do away with "convenient" automation that makes simple things trivial, and slightly more complex things very difficult. You just use the shell with all the standard commands.
- sangnoir 2y ago> Simpler packaging formats like pkgbuild and apkbuild do all of that too. I don't doubt it: isn't the breadth of Linux distro flavors and philosophies an amazing thing?