this is what it feels like to come across a debian wiki page saying something like "TODO: as of debian etch this no longer works, needs an update"
@Ilian_Amarin i find that 90% of what's on the arch wiki still applies (as long as you swap pacman
with apt
and all that), aside from the times debian desides a file should go in some weird directory that isn't the standard (looking at you, /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
)
@Ilian_Amarin @lynnesbian i do wonder, sometimes, whether this is due to just people being better at documentation in the Arch project or because of #mediawiki vs #moinmoin :)
@lynnesbian @Canageek I work on a server software and Debian support is the main reason for a lot of legacy code we need to keep supporting for *years* after we have a more stable and faster solution. It would make our job so much easier if we could drop it. 😕
@lynnesbian @Canageek Well, Red Hat/CentOS is just as bad.
@lynnesbian I feel this. I'm using debian stretch at work. It's so annoying to know about bug fixes that are not available yet because it was fixed "only" 3 years ago... 😒
@lynnesbian The arch wiki was one of the main reasons i moved over.
Its just vastly superior to most of the documentation available for Debian and ubuntu.