Re: Why are the package updates so slow?

On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 23:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 22:59 +0100, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
> > By comparison, Arch Linux has 13592 packages. Even though this is a
> > little under half as much, they get binary updates out daily.
> > 
> > Debian has, in unstable, 167965 packages! Which - if you run unstable -
> > also get daily updates.
> 
> Arch packages seldom spilt packages from upstream.
                             ^^^^^^^^ software      ^^^înto multiple
                                                       packages
> 
> For example Debian has got a package for systemd and another one for
> udev and another one for udev header files and another one ...
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/systemd
> 
> The Arch Linux package named systemd, contains systemd as provided by
> upstream. IOW included to the package are udev and udev headers, as well
> as other systemd parts.
> 
> FreeBSD might have another policy, given that it sometimes need to port
> Linux software to become FreeBSD compatible.
> 
> The count of packages has less to do with the amount of work. It doesn't
> matter that Debian provides tons of packages for the same, that is one
> Arch package, the work is the same. If software is ported from Linux to
> BSD it might require some additional work.
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