[Hamara-devel] Jessie or Stretch ?

[Vikas Tara]

On 25/08/15 09:08, Raju DV wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I have been thinking along similar lines for a while now. I have been 
running jessie as my home desktop and I'm afraid I do find it a little 
lacking
in the case of certain packages.

I could be convinced to rebuild using stretch :)

To test out a version based on stretch we wouldn't have to do all that much.

I think it's worth at least having a go.

We would need to sync the stretch repo to begin with.