On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 3:22 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager.
Amarok was removed as it required the obsolete Qt 4 library. Now that upstream has finally ported it to Qt5, it could be reintroduced to Debian. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/amarok https://tracker.debian.org/news/1055955/removed-290-2-from-unstable/ https://bugs.debian.org/935022 https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/890 https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.html#reintroducing-pkgs > VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. VirtualBox is not suitable for Debian stable because of how upstream does security updates. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/virtualbox https://bugs.debian.org/794466 Also, it isn't in main because it needs a non-free compiler to build the BIOS. > I got tired of the constant need to download all of the packages. > I am on a metered internet connection. There are a couple of Debian initiatives that could help here: https://debdelta.debian.net/ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeltaDebs > where people can create Repo's of newer software versions to > use with stable Debian. We have backports for that, and there is the bikesheds idea. https://backports.debian.org/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
