Saw the post here regarding CentOS’s off-springs and a couple of people brought up the excellent point of: why play with fire? Let’s just stick to Debian.
The only disadvantage I currently see is the outdated packages, and I’m curious whether makedeb solves them. Does anyone here use it regularly? How stable and comfortable is it? Did you write your own PKGBUILDs?
Outdated is relative. You want stable builds with backported security updates and bug fixes and a new major release every year and half? Then stable is for you.
If you want a rolling release with occasional bugs then use testing/Sid.
Well, this is about 90% less stupid than pacstall (a bunch of scripts in a trench coat that plaster files around your fs) but it still kinda misses the point of Debian. Debian’s killer feature isn’t the package format as much as the curation, support and maintenance of the software in the Debian repos done by the community. I guess there is a use case for a grab bag of “other things” but there’s some significant downside potential if not used carefully.
You know… RHEL packages can be way more outdated than Debian.
I’m using MX Linux, it’s Debian based, but I don’t think packages are out of date? They have their own repo, test, backport.
But this makedeb is interesting nonetheless, I’ll bookmark it for when I want to try it.
I’m not on a Debian-based system but a recent experience w/ packaging a software as a DEB was quite eye-opening 😅 The format and the build process felt too cluttered (to me) and it wasn’t easy for me to wrap my head around it.
I’m happy that folks are working on alternatives ✌️
