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Re: advisable to use installer script?

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: advisable to use installer script?
Date 2020-04-06 21:00 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 08:49:53PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> Regarding Python and R modules of unknown quality. What quality? Debian
> doesn't magically make any python module better or safer. Debian just
> packages a python module provided by upstream and can possibly provide
> some additional patches and support.

The main thing you get from Debian is stability -- a given package is
tested quite extensively, at least in theory.  If there are bugs or
flaws, they get patched, or mitigated in some way.

Of course the extent of this stability testing depends on the popularity
of the package, so a module that only a hundred people ever use might not
receive as much quality assurance/improvement as, say, xterm does.

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  Re: advisable to use installer script? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-04-06 17:50 +0200
    Re: advisable to use installer script? Anil F Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2020-04-06 18:50 +0200
      Re: advisable to use installer script? Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-04-06 21:00 +0200
        Re: advisable to use installer script? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-06 21:00 +0200
          Re: advisable to use installer script? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-08 17:40 +0200
            Re: advisable to use installer script? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-09 07:10 +0200
              Re: advisable to use installer script? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-10 04:10 +0200
        Re: advisable to use installer script? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-04-06 21:40 +0200
          Re: advisable to use installer script? Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-04-06 22:50 +0200
            Re: advisable to use installer script? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-04-06 23:50 +0200
              Re: advisable to use installer script? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-08 17:40 +0200
            Re: advisable to use installer script? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-07 10:20 +0200
              Re: advisable to use installer script? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-04-07 10:40 +0200
        Re: advisable to use installer script? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-07 10:10 +0200

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