Debian patches too much and can't be trusted is the lesson I learnt.
They haven't changed their patching policy since so I refuse to use any Debian derivative and advise everyone to do so and stick to distributions which stay as close to vanilla as possible.
Similarly I also think that anything pretending to provide LTS while freezing software versions is misguided and mostly lying to you and you are one incorrectly backported patch away from distaster.
It does. This is partly because of The Debian Guarantee: I think that's why they delivered a castrated version of FFMPEG.
If upstream is deemed non-free, then they should just put the package in non-free, and delete it from main. Mangling upstream so they can squeeze it into main is worse than pointless.
Debian patches too much and can't be trusted is the lesson I learnt.
They haven't changed their patching policy since so I refuse to use any Debian derivative and advise everyone to do so and stick to distributions which stay as close to vanilla as possible.
Similarly I also think that anything pretending to provide LTS while freezing software versions is misguided and mostly lying to you and you are one incorrectly backported patch away from distaster.