Re: Q to all candidates: SWOT analysis
On 15347 March 1977, Jose Miguel Parrella wrote:
One of the questions in my platform hinted at one point: The "package"
managers various new languages came up with.
Do you (and other candidates) see this as a threat or as an
opportunity?
Both.
It is a threat if we do nothing and ignore it or even go "Oh gosh, those
newcomers with their toy language, look, they have no security".
It is an opportunity, if someone steps up to take it. If we manage to
put the well-known sanity our packaging delivers around the craziness of
"fetch things from random git repos wherever", and that in a way that
even on stable Debian you can get latest and (hopefully) greatest
$languagestuff, then we win.
This won't be simple.
The reason why I think this is a question for everyone and not just APT
maintainers is connected to a question I made in another thread. I asked
whether Debian is more than Debian GNU/Linux the distro you download and
install or that you get from a hoster or that you get as a side effect
of someone choosing FROM debian in a Dockerfile.
apt is only a small part in it.
--
bye, Joerg
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