[elitepleb]

Debian would compile dependencies with versions lower than specified in the project, reintroducing bugs that users would blame upstream for, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Orphans-Bcachefs-Tools

[linsomniac]

Why is Kent not providing his own deb packages that users can install to override the Debian provided ones to get updates?

[koverstreet]

Perhaps down the road, after experimental is lifted. For now I've generally been telling distros to slow down.

For anything this big staging the release is important, we don't need or want to be in every distro right away (the Fedora people were also _extremely_ gung ho in the past and I told them the same thing).

Until every outstanding critical bug report is fixed (and there are still a few), I want power users testing it who know how to deal with things breaking, I don't want unsuspecting users getting bit.

[tmtvl]

Because he isn't a Debian packager. That isn't his job.

[kstrauser]

Got it. I could see that being an issue.

[XorNot]

It seems honestly odd to me not to just vendor what you need as standalone packages if your dependencies are that specific and you're a filesystem i.e. you use the bcachefs-errno package, not errno.

[tredre3]

Debian tends to put their principles above pragmatism (for better or worse), so would they even agree with such vendoring when it's entirely meant as a way to bypass their vision/requirements/process for how dependencies should be handled?