Outdated is relative.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.

I was just thinking the other day how nice it would be to port pamac into some more prod-oriented environments.

Looking through the docs, it appears to tick most of the boxes I’d want, will have to play with it in the coming days.

Have an upcoming project that will actually require some consistency and documentation, this might be useful.

I don’t mind building when necessary, but doing so is not calculated to communicate well with future me, so it’s not ideal.

I’m using MX Linux, it’s Debian based, but I don’t think packages are out of date?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 ✌️

You know… RHEL packages can be way more outdated than Debian.

Lovely yet another package manager to add to the pile

Nice job team 👍