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  • Mageia switching to Debian format.

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Thu Apr 1 10:58:47 2021
    A rather strange reason given:

    "Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM package
    format, which we’ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee has
    approved the switch to Debian package manager, apt."

    I would have thought that the "complete lack of bugs" would be a good
    enough reason to stick with the RPM format, leaving time for other more pressing problems. The sentence reads as though RPM isn't sufficiently challenging. I was a bit surprised when RPM was set as the "standard" package. Maybe the new Board has different ideas.

    https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/04/01/emergency-updates-about-the-direction-of-mageia/

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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Thu Apr 1 11:04:31 2021
    On 01/04/2021 10:58, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    A rather strange reason given:

    "Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM package
    format, which we’ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee has
    approved the switch to Debian package manager, apt."

    I would have thought that the "complete lack of bugs" would be a good
    enough reason to stick with the RPM format, leaving time for other more pressing problems.  The sentence reads as though RPM isn't sufficiently challenging.  I was a bit surprised when RPM was set as the "standard" package.  Maybe the new Board has different ideas.

    https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/04/01/emergency-updates-about-the-direction-of-mageia/

    Today is April 1.........

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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Thu Apr 1 16:46:30 2021
    On 1/4/21 9:04 pm, Grimble wrote:
    On 01/04/2021 10:58, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    A rather strange reason given:

    "Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM package
    format, which we’ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee has
    approved the switch to Debian package manager, apt."

    I would have thought that the "complete lack of bugs" would be a good
    enough reason to stick with the RPM format, leaving time for other
    more pressing problems.  The sentence reads as though RPM isn't
    sufficiently challenging.  I was a bit surprised when RPM was set as
    the "standard" package.  Maybe the new Board has different ideas.

    https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/04/01/emergency-updates-about-the-direction-of-mageia/

    Today is April 1.........

    Yes, I overlooked that. I am in bad health at the moment, falling over frequently, and not entirely "with it."

    I was puzzled that such a complete change of direction hadn't been
    mentioned earlier, and why was it headed "emergency," when the quoted timeframe didn't seem to justify it. I clicked on the link to the
    "wiki" and was taken to a YouTube music video. There used to be some
    beauties on SourceForge and on the New Zealand Ham magazine. One
    described a pink "Barbie" laptop.

    I always wondered why the basic RPM rpm needed so many upgrades, but
    Mint (a Debian) distro, does the same.

    Doug.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Thu Apr 1 17:18:14 2021
    On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:46:30 -0400, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
    I always wondered why the basic RPM rpm needed so many upgrades, but
    Mint (a Debian) distro, does the same.

    Running "rpm -q --changelog rpm" |less let's you get an idea for the changes that get made to in.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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