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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by bombolo on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:55AM (#33313340)
> Hard to fork and maintain my own version

apt-get source xxxx

put patch in debian/patches

dch --increase

dpkg-buildpackage.

Copy the patch and rebuild next time a new version comes out.

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by robertlagrant on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:13AM (#33315197)
Creating bridges that allow Apt to become the overarching package manager for all sorts of language-specific packages would be extremely interesting.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by still_grokking on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:31AM (#33315354)
$ apt rdepends debhelper
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by bombolo on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:54AM (#33316638)
Most languages have that already.
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