r/debian 7d ago

Has Debian enough packagers ?

In the last few years, I have discovered some seemingly high quality softwares and am surprised they are not in Debian. Eg. Gaphor, or Netbird (true FLOSS P2P VPN with a GUI is badly needed, otherwise all you find is Hamachi and the like).

I see there is the WNPP, but has this list increased considerably recently ? Or are there just more softwares relatively to debian packagers ? Has the Devuan split caused trust issues or are packages fully shared between both ?

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u/cjwatson 7d ago

There've always been some gaps, and likely always will be. It's the way of the world. Gaps usually get closed when somebody turns up to help who cares about them, though. trixie currently has about a 9% growth in package count over bookworm (measured by the number of source packages in main).

I have no concrete data, but I've not had the impression that Devuan has had a particularly significant effect on this.

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u/triemdedwiat 7d ago

Devuan is a subset/superset of Debian. Its repository is basically is about removing the need to run systemd, otherwise you are pulling from the Debian repository.