Re: advisable to use installer script?
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 08:49:53PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> Regarding Python and R modules of unknown quality. What quality? Debian
> doesn't magically make any python module better or safer. Debian just
> packages a python module provided by upstream and can possibly provide
> some additional patches and support.
The main thing you get from Debian is stability -- a given package is
tested quite extensively, at least in theory. If there are bugs or
flaws, they get patched, or mitigated in some way.
Of course the extent of this stability testing depends on the popularity
of the package, so a module that only a hundred people ever use might not
receive as much quality assurance/improvement as, say, xterm does.
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