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- HEADLINE: Easier DEB repository creation. - DESCRIPTION: Creating a custom remote/local/CD/DVD repo or a partial mirror is simply a nightmare, mainly because package management internals are poorly documented. There are many tools developed to just solve this problem, but most of them aren't actively maintained. Aptly seems like the best right now, but is way much complicated and inflexible.
- HEADLINE: port pledge(2) from OpenBSD - DESCRIPTION: Debian has been a great source of innovation and leadership within the OSS world. Make the next big move by adopting pledge(2) from OpenBSD to be the first major mandatory security feature on Linux. There is little hassle in making programs use it, and the LOC in the kernel is tiny compared to say SELinux. See [1] for more details. [1] http://www.openbsd.org/pape…
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. Unlike a lot of other packages in contrib, ZFS doesn't rely on any non-free software. It just can't be in Debian main because of the conflict of licenses. However, it would be nice if there was a way to have a more official path to ZFS on roo…
Decent support for ZFS in general, especially during installation already.
Ideally, ZFS root filesystem support (snapshot before upgrade, yay!).
I've been using ZFS for six(?) years now, on both Debian and Ubuntu, and while ZFS root is so important to me that I'm willing to jump through the necessary hoops to install it, it's kinda grating and perhaps riskier. And not for the faint of heart.
HEADLINE: a merger of flatpkg and snap DESCRIPTION: a consensus on the next generation of package management. Please. We have had decades of fragmentation (not to mention duplicated innovation) around the RPM vs DEB ecosystem. Which is why it is still hard for beginners to want to use Linux - try explaining to anyone who comes from a Mac about rpm vs deb vs whatever else. Which is why they would pay for the mac rathe…
How does that make any sense whatsoever? You have three different systems to choose from ... and you choose one of them because the other two are different from one another?!
HEADLINE: Easier way to create local packages DESCRIPTION: My first distro was Debian. Then, for a while, I used Arch. But it kept irritating me with its total disregard for backwards-compatibility (symlinking /usr/bin/python to python3), coarse-grained packages (want to install QEMU PPC without pulling in every other architecture as well? too bad!), lack of debug packages (good luck rebuilding WebKit just to get sta…
HEADLINE: a merger of flatpkg and snap DESCRIPTION: a consensus on the next generation of package management. Please. We have had decades of fragmentation (not to mention duplicated innovation) around the RPM vs DEB ecosystem. Which is why it is still hard for beginners to want to use Linux - try explaining to anyone who comes from a Mac about rpm vs deb vs whatever else. Which is why they would pay for the mac rathe…
Just came to add another comment on how bad it was - I just wanted to download pypy for some experiments. http://pypy.org/download.html > download PyPy from your release vendor (usually an outdated version): Ubuntu (PPA), Debian, Homebrew, MacPorts, Fedora, Gentoo and Arch are known to package PyPy, with various degrees of being up-to-date. This is the world of Linux software installation.
Homebrew and Macports are OS X, not Linux.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the very least "unstable" has a name with a negative connotation. It has the air of it being the user's fault if you use it and stuff breaks. I don't know what the practical breakage situation is, so I don't know if renaming and repositioning unstable would make more sense than doing it with testing. My point is that it would be good for non-expert end users who like Debian's community image and who want security…
Have you actually tried unstable? Granted, I haven't used it for a few years now (the only Debian boxes I have today are servers running stable), but "unstable" was actually quite reliable. Yes, it did break occasionally (mostly just minor issues with package dependencies) but those were usually easy fixes and "unstable" was actually quite usable as an everyday, desktop Linux. If you haven't tried it, give it a shot.…
That was the risk I accepted. That's what unstable is for. And you need somewhere like that to find those bugs.
But that's what you need to be able to handle if you run unstable. So I never recommend it to anyone; if anything I warn people off. If you can't make do with stable+backports, try testing. But don't try unstable unless you know enough about it to understand why you shouldn't, and still want to anyway.
Definitely don't run unstable because someone on the internet told you it was a great way to get up-to-date packages.
HEADLINE: Easy way to use multiple screens with different DPI DESCRIPTION: Many laptops (e.g. Macbook Pro) come with retina screens, but most of us use 'regular' monitors. Even after setting org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor and playing with xrandr, it can be difficult or impossible to get a single external non-retina display set up in the right position and without one screen containing tiny text (or huge t…
Is mbp retina supported? All my attempts to get things to look right (using XUbuntu) failed :( Any cheat sheets?
- HEADLINE: Continue to provide a mechanism for offline installation of a large selection of the repository. - DESCRIPTION: Debian is the only distribution that I know of that provides .iso images from which you can install the operating system and subsequently install a wide range of (libre) software. In addition, Debian provides update .isos. These affordances make installing and maintaining a desktop computer with…
> without an Internet connection, or with a slow and expensive connection Could you elaborate more on your particular use-case? Would be interested if there were also compromise solutions such as smarter binary diffs, etc.
And of course, odds are that they won't be reading this thread!
I've often been in this situation myself.
HEADLINE: Keep selected packages up-to-date on stable DESCRIPTION: If you are using Debian, especially stable, you have to put up with outdated packages. This is especially a problem with browsers, although you do include security updates and track Firefox ESR, if I understand correctly. But things like Webkitgtk do not recieve updates, and lack feature and security wise after a while. I think keeping up-to-date vers…
Plus, the point of the pre-release freeze is to make sure the whole system is stable. If you're constantly releasing new versions of packages, you can never guarantee that kind of stability.
Personally, I think people should just try Unstable; it works fine for a desktop/laptop system. I haven't had a major issue in years.