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by goku12 413 days ago
I don't know anything about quarto, but you're missing a lot of useful software if you're limiting yourself to the distro repo - especially Debian stable.
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As a matter of principle, i prefer to use really stable software that does not change wantonly, and whose authors took the care to put it into debian.

My 20 year-old .tex documents still compile today. Will the same happen with quarto? (or typst, for that matter?) The fact that they offer no packages in the debian standard distribution signals they have likely succumbed to the awful trend of version churning, where you need to use the last version of the software or else. Thus, probably, in 20 years my documents will be un-compilable. For legacy things like typeset documents, it's reasonable to prefer legacy solutions like latex.

Once quarto and typst have stabilized enough to appear in debian stable, I'll consider them as viable alternatives.

FWIW software gets in Debian because of Debian, not because of the authors of the software.