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[Budi <budikusasi@gmail.com>]

only need that for dependency of bugreport of debian which's in os-prober

while os-prober used by many else than Debian !

so actually  I'm on arch, not even debian

On 6/17/23, David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 07:47:16AM +0700, Budi wrote:
>> How can I get binary release already compiled, not the source like on
>> this Gitlab ?
>
> I am not quite sure I understand your question correctly…
>
> Your Debian(-based) distribution comes with binary packages for its
> releases. A bunch of non-Debian-based distributions have it as an
> optional package available as well, but version and support may vary
> greatly.
>
> There is a PPA for Ubuntu I think, but that is not really intended to
> be used by endusers and in general it isn't a good idea to install a
> version of apt that didn't come from your distro and is build for this
> distros release as QA is done only on the version shipped with it.
>
>
> If you want to test a newer version of apt, you are far better of using
> a chroot (based on e.g. Debian unstable) than to trying to pull apt from
> unstable (or another binary release) into another release.
>
>
> As upstream we certainly don't provide binary releases for individual
> distributions nor are we building a "universal" binary for them all or
> even flatpak/snap/AppImage/… it. APT is too tightly integrated with
> a distribution (release) to make that a good idea in general.
>
>
> So, in a very layman comparison, apt isn't like e.g. firefox, its more
> like the kernel or libc – you won't find binary releases decoupled from
> a distro for those either.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> David Kalnischkies
>