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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by xorfish on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:58AM (#13356722)
> Packaging is a complicated task and isn't as automatable as you'd think

I think the Solus guys would have a word with you. Even with no packaging experience it is pretty simple to create a package for Solus Project.

Here a short intro:

https://wiki.solus-project.com/Packaging

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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by infinity0 on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:06AM (#13356791)
Come back when they have done this for 24000 third-party packages.
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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by xorfish on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:44PM (#13360088)
I don't see the connection. I didn't say that they have more packages, just that they have very good packaging tooling that makes it simple to make consistent packages.
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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by BuuQu9hu on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:42PM (#13361483)
When you package 24000 things, you find significant diversity in build systems, languages, source code, testing etc. It isn't easy to package all of that in simple ways.
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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by xorfish on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:47AM (#13363553)
I don't know exactly to what the 24000 number refers to. Solus Project does already have 5000 packages in the repos. I think that is quite an accomplishment for a pretty small team of 3-4 people with some help from the community.
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