Re:Debian discusses vendoring again
by npsimons on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:14PM
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> But either way you lose a lot of the benefits that being officially in the Debian repos would bring.
The first thing I do when I hear about a new (to me) piece of software is an "apt-cache search $SOFTWARE". If it doesn't show up there, that's a red flag to me: this software isn't mature or stable enough to be trusted on my production machines.
Sure, I might go ahead and download it to play around with on my development machines, but for all the "I'm making it awesome!" arguments of developers, more often than not it's just an excuse for lack of discipline in development process.
The first thing I do when I hear about a new (to me) piece of software is an "apt-cache search $SOFTWARE". If it doesn't show up there, that's a red flag to me: this software isn't mature or stable enough to be trusted on my production machines.
Sure, I might go ahead and download it to play around with on my development machines, but for all the "I'm making it awesome!" arguments of developers, more often than not it's just an excuse for lack of discipline in development process.