Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
by SkiFire13 on Saturday August 31, 2024 @11:53AM
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Imagine that an update of bcache-fs is released and 3 dependencies (could even be transitive) were updated and the newer versions were not packaged in Debian. The maintainer now has one package to update but another 3 to package for the first time. That's additional work. AFAIK Fedora has a tool to automatize this work, but maybe Debian has additional requirements that make this harder.
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Debian (and derivs) have similar tooling (and the vast majority of rust packages are tracked in a monorepo https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf).
My point was "some of the upstream versions were older than Debian's" which means the "Debian is behind, Debian is slow" is not true in the case. That usually only happens where an upstream is either very conservative with bumping versions, or where upstream is under-maintained, neither which at first glance seem to be true of becache-fs.