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by WastingMyTime89 1212 days ago
> Wonder if any of the lessons got learned?

Debian patches too much and can't be trusted is the lesson I learnt.

They haven't changed their patching policy since so I refuse to use any Debian derivative and advise everyone to do so and stick to distributions which stay as close to vanilla as possible.

Similarly I also think that anything pretending to provide LTS while freezing software versions is misguided and mostly lying to you and you are one incorrectly backported patch away from distaster.
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denton-scratch 1212 days ago
> Debian patches too much

It does. This is partly because of The Debian Guarantee: I think that's why they delivered a castrated version of FFMPEG.

If upstream is deemed non-free, then they should just put the package in non-free, and delete it from main. Mangling upstream so they can squeeze it into main is worse than pointless.

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Karellen 1212 days ago
> anything pretending to provide LTS while freezing software versions is misguided

How would you define LTS?

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dsr_ 1212 days ago
LTS is making only the breaking changes that I want, of course. /s
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goodpoint 1212 days ago
It's the complete opposite.
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