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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Developers are exceptionally bad at packaging software though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still better than developers providing .tar.gz files or hosting an apt repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Depends, at least with the APT repo there is a chance they used lintian to avoid the worst mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

So having 1 packaging format that works across distros is good.