On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM Paul Gevers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2026-10-20 02:48, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > It's not just because other distribution mechanisms exist though. > > Debian's stable release architecture, while very useful, simply does > > not play well with rapid-release software that has to keep pace with a > > rapidly changing ecosystem. Applications in that category will become > > difficult to use over time at best, and dreadfully insecure at worst. > > We have fasttrack for those packages: https://fasttrack.debian.net/
Indeed, and I think this would be a good fit there. (I will note however that, as someone who is not a DD but who is skilled in Debian packaging, I had a very hard time contributing to the fasttrack repository in any meaningful way, and a project I work on that depended on VirtualBox from the fasttrack repository had to switch to Oracle's repositories because newer versions weren't packaged quickly enough. There was nothing I seemed to be able to do to help with packaging it quicker since I couldn't get anyone to tell me what process to follow, or if I could contribute at all.) -- Aaron > Paul >
