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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by briffle on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:14AM (#21743804)
you can use a tool like snap or appimage to pull down the newest full release of your software.. at least then, all the dependancies are 'bundled' into the image, and your not having people go randomly install crap from around the internet with no real way to update.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by throwaway2048 on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:21AM (#21743850)
Building debian packages from source definitely does not involve "randomly installing crap from around the internet".

The .sdeb format packages up sources and build scripts into one atomic, build-able unit.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by Conan_Kudo on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:49AM (#21751923)
The only .sdeb archive format I know of is the one for debbuild[1]. Most Debian package build mechanisms don't have a source package archive format.

[1]: https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild

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