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Re:Debian bookworm live images now reproducible by nukem222 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:37AM (#43494118)
Right. Good luck finding people who want to maintain that. It just seems incredibly short-sighted unless the current batch of maintainers intend to live forever.
Re:Debian bookworm live images now reproducible by sgarland on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:09PM (#43495073)
Counterpoint: if someone knows Perl, they are much more likely to have the requisite skills to be a maintainer for a distro. It’s self-selection.

Imagine the filtering required for potential maintainers if they rewrote the packaging to JS.