Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by orangeshark 3490 days ago
>If I can't rely on _specific versions_, I have gained nothing at all vs. using .deb.

Isn't that what you literally do in Nix and GNU Guix? You can create packages with specific versions of all your dependencies and use that for your package. I think by default they try to package and build with latest but can create packages for specific versions if needed.