On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:09:31PM +0200, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > Hello everybody out there! > > On 2021/04/09 at 09:21 am, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Can you pose one concrete use case where it is unavoidable? > > I have found some bugs in Musescore that are corrected on a higher > version than the one available in stable. > > I need some functionalities available in Ardour 6, which is not > available in stable. In those cases, would a backport help? What I try to do is to download the source and try to build it on stable. Kind of "poor person's backport". Sometimes it "just works", sometimes the build dependencies are too hard to fulfill. > > For example: would a more broad availability of backports reduce > > the need for snaps, flats or how they may be called? > > If those two where available in backports, I definitively would use > these versions. I see. > Now, I need Discord and the only version which works after an update is > the one available as a snap. > > I have also been asked to use Microsoft Teams. Well, this one never > really works, either as a deb, a snap or a flatpak… > > Concerning the few proprietary softwares I use, I think I rather use > something like snap or flatpak—I have no preferences, save the fact I > rather have the possibility to set up y own server. > > Now, I have develop a few small applications who do not have much users > and are not in the position to integrate the distribution. For the few > users of these programs, it is way easier for them that I give an > Appimage or a Flatpak. Those last data points are a bit concerning. It'd be interesting what a project like Debian could do to mitigate that. Thanks for the data points! Cheers - t
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