[Hamara-devel] Jessie or Stretch ?

[Vikas Tara]

On 05/09/15 11:51, Vikas Tara wrote:
> 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.
That one throws a kernel panic, will have a closer look at that