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0 pointsskydhash9mo ago0 comments

> It's not reasonable to expect every software in existence to work with a compatible set of dependencies. So no, the distro can't supply all the libraries.

That is not what it's being asked.

As a developer, you just need to provide the code and the list of requirements. And maybe some guide about how to build and run tests. You do not want to care about where I find those dependencies (Maybe I'm running you code as PID 1).

But a lot of developers want to be maintainers as well and they want to enforce what can be installed on the user's system. (And no I don't want docker and multiple versions of nginx)

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jen209mo ago

The question is whose issue tracker ends up on blast when something that Debian did causes issues in software. Often only to find that the bug has been fixed already but the distribution won't bother to update.

rcxdude9mo ago

>As a developer, you just need to provide the code and the list of requirements. And maybe some guide about how to build and run tests. You do not want to care about where I find those dependencies (Maybe I'm running you code as PID 1).

That's provided by any competent build system. If you want to build it differently, with a different set of requirements, that's up to you to figure out (and fix when it breaks).

marcosdumay9mo ago

> That is not what it's being asked.

From whom? You seem to be talking only about upstream developers.

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