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Another downside might be that developer just does not test his software with OS-supplied library versions. So it can cause all the kinds of bugs. There's a rea
by vbezhenar 2y ago
Another downside might be that developer just does not test his software with OS-supplied library versions. So it can cause all the kinds of bugs. There's a reason why containers won in server-side development.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoThat's why distros (at least of the kind that Debian is) aim to do everything themselves; they mirror upstream code ( https://sources.debian.org/ https://sources.debian.org/ ), they write their own packaging scripts, they test the whole thing together, and then they handle problems in-house ( https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ). The upstream developer shouldn't need to have done any of this themselves.