The way it is today the debian packages are useless and frustrating. I don't want to offend anyone for continuing work on lms, but offering non working packages is worse than offering no packages at all.
They're not non-working. They just don't work with your OS/architecture combination.
I've brought up the topic a few months back. There's been some discussion around the Linux packaging, but no consensus. I fully agree, that having a one size fits all package doesn't scale. Incidentally I looked up 6.5.3 yesterday. The .deb package was one of the smallest packages we provided. It probably only supported i386/Perl 5.8 or the like. Today we support ARM (hf/sf), PPC, i386, x86_64, and Perl 5.8 - 5.20 (not all combinations, obviously). And we're already one Perl version behind...
FWIW: is there any way to help you splitting up lms in architecture specific packages with correct dependencies using as much packages from the host as possible?
Please search the forums for that other discussion on that topic. Don't remember what it was called, tbh.
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