On my way to #UbuntuSummit, in a late and full regional train to the airport.

@sqwishy@social.froghat.cabad in which way ?

Du fährst doch gerne Zug, wie ist das denn in Bayern ?
Bahn in Bayern:

@malwareminigun unless it's innovative like nix.

@malwareminigun the two big DE, KDE and GNOME have a half-yearly release schedule (iirc) and that usually alignes with Debian releasing ~ every two years. This allows shipping the latest stable release (usually) so users still have a somewhat current system until the next release. Like I said, you have to make a tradeoff somewhere. Reinventing package formats when rpm and dpkg have been battle-tested and around for more than 30 years seems like waste to me

@malwareminigun @drewdevault stable exists for a reason; if you want new stuff use debian sid or testing. Simple as that.

@malwareminigun @drewdevault ask distro maintainers to backport the fix (which debian does btw for CVEs and other security fixes; even regyalr backports exist) or use a newer system. There's always gonna be a tradeoff between stability and new features.

Nice, elogind 254 will come out soon and unbreak alternative inits on debian (and other distros too. Sad that it has come to this.

@malwareminigun @drewdevault upstream shouldn't need to ship anything, if it's a good and free software people will distribute it.

@drewdevault @malwareminigun sure did, as distro maintainer myself I agree.

@malwareminigun @drewdevault ~80 % of the packages in ubuntu are based on the debian ones which are maintained by unpaid volunteers for the most part. I don't know how the numbers are for fedora, but I imagine it's similar. Imho distro packages are the superior in many ways, and I'd rather compile from source than use a flatpak or curl | sh tbh. Most applications I use are distro packages anyway. I think reinventing package formats isn't gonna improve linux itself

It's bad enough that someone would bomb a refugee camp killing 100s of civilians, but that so many people all over the world gleefully support that, makes it so much worse.

@skye this is true. The moment I installed #debian I became a package maintainer /s

@mirabilos just opted for a quick supper; maybe I'll cook tomorrow then

I should start writing about my packaging and general #debian work on a blog. But I feel that'd use up time I don't have :(

tmw you want to make some food but are too tired to do so.

Just got #Obfuscate accepted into #Debian, for all your image-censoring needs.

It's a really nice program to censor e.g. bank statements when you need to send those somewhere.

#Debian #GTK #Rust

@grillchen drum reih dich ein in die Arbeitereinheitsfront

@lakoja code:geass is pretty good; same for One Punch Man. Though not strictly anime, I can recommend avatar and the legend of korra, too. Yesterday I started Pluto and it's suspenseful and interesting so far.