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Would the Core Infrastructure Initiative be willing to sponsor a cryptographer to review it? Getting this right would make it a lot easier to have faith in encrypted backups. Right…

Have the design decisions been reviewed by a cryptographer yet? According to the presentation on youtube, it had not.

It's not really the same thing though. Packages in testing get migrated 2-10 days unless there's a serious bug report and then they get delayed indefinitely. Not all bug reports ar…

This isn't as easy as it sounds. Pledge works in OpenBSD because OpenBSD is simple and all of the necessary code lives in one tree. Pledge is supported in the vast majority of Open…

- HEADLINE: Bring back the standard (console) Live CD - DESCRIPTION: Jessie had a standard Live CD. While the HTML still refers to this flavor, it is not found on any mirror that I…

Do you mean right now after a release or you recommend unstable in general?

HEADLINE: Better package discovery DESCRIPTION: There are a ton of packages in Debian. I sometimes browse through all of the packages looking for some gem that I didn't know about …

HEADLINE: Latest elixir in Debian DESCRIPTION: Debian unstable still has elixir 1.3.3. It looks like the "official" path forward is to add Erlang Solutions as another apt repositor…

HEADLINE: More fine grained meta packages as community recommendations. DESCRIPTION: There are a few Debian meta packages but they are really broad. Example: it would be great if t…

OpenSSL doesn't follow semantic versioning. This is not a simple version upgrade. They knowingly broke the API between 1.0 and 1.1 and it can require substantial changes. They also…

HEADLINE: First class ZFS install support on Live CD. DESCRIPTION: The license conflict between the open source ZFS and open source Linux kernel mean ZFS needs to be in contrib. Un…

HEADLINE: Day(s) old sid as a rolling distro DESCRIPTION: I think I represent a number of users. We want to use unstable as a rolling distribution, but we don't want to run into ev…