[Hamara-devel] Jessie or Stretch ?

[Raju DV]

Hi everyone,

We are currently building Sugam on using Debian Jessie (Debian Stable)
as the base, Considering the versions of packages present in Jessie
which are too old. I propose that we should build the Sugam using Debian
Stretch (Debian testing) as the base.
Debian Stretch is having a lot of latest software versions and it
already contains a lot of software dependencies packaged.

A lot of dependencies which were required by Calamares Installer were
not present in Jessie but I was easily able to build it up on Stretch.

Besides Debian stretch is not that problematic as one may think it is. A
lot of other distributions already build on using Debian testing as a
base. including

1. Linux Mint Debian Edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint#Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition

2. Tanglu GNU/Linux

Majority of Tanglu Linux software comes from Debian unstable and some
from debian testing.

http://tanglu.org/faq/

3. Ubuntu
Ubuntu's most packages comes from Debian Unstable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29#History_and_development_process


so Debian testing is pretty much stable for use as most of its softwares
have migrated from Debian unstable to testing. So a lot of bugs on them
have already been fixed.

looking up for your opinions.


Raju
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