On 2022-03-24 at 22:27:42 +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > Don't you think it would be smart to integrate all the updates contained in > the Backports directory with each new minor update of our favorite OS ? For > example for the versions 11.3, 11.4, etc ? > [...] > It would seem to me to strengthen the overall security of Debian, with less > effort/labor. With my user hat on, this would completely break Debian for my usecase. I trust Debian stable to provide me with a stable api that I can trust not to change during the distro lifetime, while getting way more security fixes than I would have by using a language-native package manager and fixed dependency versions. Adding the changes from backport to each point release would force me to stop updating the whole distribution, leading to a much *worse* security state. > This would make Debian easily compatible with all the new devices > available, without having to use the line of code too much... it would > therefore make Debian more accessible to all non-experienced Linux users. > [...] For device support usually it is enough to install just the kernel from backports, but that is also only needed on very recent hardware, so a small fraction of all debian uses. And then non-experienced users would still get unusable hardware because it requires non-free components, so it wouldn't really change their experience. If the relevant team wasn't already overworked, I could see how adding the kernel from backports to the unofficial non-free image could maybe be useful, while having a much lower impact on the overall distribution, but that's not something I'm interested in, so I'm not volunteering to do any work on that :) -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
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