[Hamara-devel] Jessie or Stretch ?

[Vikas Tara]

On 25/08/15 09:43, Amardeep Singh wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> 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.
I have built and iso based on stretch, the build finished fine - but I 
haven't tested it yet.

Will try and do that tonight and post back my findings.