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0 pointsmorelisp3y ago0 comments

Better automation ensuring packages are immutable, fewer humans in the packaging loop.

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generally I prefer humans in the loop, someone to actually test things. This is why distros are stable compared to other distros which are more bleeding edge.

morelispOP3y ago

For SC security, the fewer points of attack between me and the source the better.

For other kinds of quality, I have my own tests which are much more relevant to my use cases than whatever the distro maintainers are doing.

I've been a DD and while distros do work to integrate disparate upstreams as well as possible, they rarely reject packages for being fundamentally low quality or make significant quality judgements qua their role as maintainer (only when they're a maintainer because they're also a direct user). Other distributions do even less than Debian.

dijit3y ago

I have seen scenarios where package maintainers have rejected updating packages because the upstream is compromised though.

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dijit3y ago

generally I prefer humans in the loop, someone to actually test things. This is why distros are stable compared to other distros which are more bleeding edge.

morelispOP3y ago

For SC security, the fewer points of attack between me and the source the better.

For other kinds of quality, I have my own tests which are much more relevant to my use cases than whatever the distro maintainers are doing.

dijit3y ago

I have seen scenarios where package maintainers have rejected updating packages because the upstream is compromised though.

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