Post #2919548
2026-04-23 17:00 UTC
@red@woof.tech
One thing that would make that process easier would be if you were to provide a list of which packages comprise the 95% that is available in Debian already, and which 5% are unique to your fork.
Debian kindly provides such lists on https://www.debian.org/blends/ , so we can check which versions are available, which are lagging behind, and see what's missing. I would have enjoyed seeing something like its "hamradio" and "metapackages" links on your website.
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@red@woof.tech 2026-04-23 17:14
@fossham@mastodon.radio displaying a list of packages in a navigable manner is on my head. I’m not happy how we do it on the blends website, but I’ve not got a better idea yet either. You could help me expedite automating that detail by providing the code that’ll grab that detail, but until then things are provided on an “I have time” basis, which at the moment I don’t as all my project time is used this week, but it’s a good request! Without automation I can say that in the base install it is 0 custom packages from me as I am using the Debian Metapackages and almost all users don’t want their computer silently to run a packet node on boot, that would potentially be a bit of a hole.