Hi, Fungal-net writes:
> Please don''t let the Grouch break up your valentine party but would > anyone care to elaborate on the following scenario? > > We have Joe, Jill, Jack, and Mindy. > Joe is running Wheezy and converts to Ascii > Jill is running Devuan 1 Jessie and converts to ascii > Jack is running Stretch and converts to Ascii > and finally Mindy just installs Ascii-beta-2.0 > > Don't ask me, I have been running ascii for a quite a while now and my > experience with Jessie has been from first boot to the second. And I > have run OpenRC and eudev ever since they appeared in experimental. > > All four of the above have same packages installed in the versions > that they exist in those 4 situations. > > 1 Is the end product different? > 2 Should the end product be different. > 3 The packages that are available and keep upgrading in the debian > branch of merged, do they appear to all four of them as they do in > the debian repository? In other words If you add debian stretch > to the repositories the versions "in merged ascii" and in stretch > should be the same. right? Live at any given minute? That is > what amprolla3 is doing, right? Are they? > > Because as per a couple of hours ago it seems as I have been exposed > to this amprolla3 for 4-5 months now, without knowing, and although I > run about the same stuff on a test debian isntallations, pkgs there > rain down to the level of about 20-30/day, while ascii has been pretty > inactive in terms of upgrades. So what exactly is merged with devuan? IIUC, you say you are seeing 20-30 upgradable packages on a "test" Debian installation. If this is a Debian repositories only system, that number is way too high for either of Debian's Jessie and Stretch. There have been quite a number of security upgrades, 2-3 a day in the last week or so, but nothing near 20-30. Could it be that your Debian "test" system is set up to track Debian's *testing*, i.e. Buster as of writing, as opposed to *stable* (Stretch) or *oldstable* (Jessie)? # See https://www.debian.org/releases/ If that is the case, 20-30 upgradable packages a day seems reasonable and the reason you're not seeing that in Devuan is because ASCII is targetting Debian's Stretch, *not* Buster. Buster will be for Devuan's Beowulf and work on that is unlikely to begin before ASCII becomes the "stable" Devuan release. So if your Debian "test" system is tracking *testing* you're are, in effect, comparing apples and oranges ;-) Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
