[Hamara-devel] Jessie or Stretch ?

[Amardeep Singh]

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On Tuesday 25 August 2015 02:07 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> 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.
I discussed this with Raju. I am convinced we should add stretch or 
build it on stretch.

I'll get the repo sorted now and lets give it go.

Thanks,
Amardeep
>
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