Quoting Gunnar Wolf (2026-03-02 15:51:23) > I understand a “Debian Blend” can include bits of software that are > not part of Debian already, while a “Debian Pure Blend” is strictly a > subset of packages of Debian with a preseeded configuration.
Almost correct: There is no requirement that a Debian Pure Blend makes use of preseeding. > But I think Andreas Tille coined the terms, and he should have a > better say in this than me (of course, if he is the person that > coined the terms). The person coining both these terms were me, during a sprint that Andreas Tille and Holger Levsen also attended. As far as I can see, Holger Levsen was the first to mention it it digitally¹, and Andreas Tille created the wiki page² for it. Both Holger and Andreas had preferred a single term, where I insisted there be a distinction between purely Debian-based compositions and what is nowadays more commonly known as Debian Derivative. Their recuctance towards the "Pure" variant explains why initial edits of the wiki page does not clearly distinguish between the two related concepts. It was a discussion between Holger, Andreas and me at that sprint that I was referring to in my second post in this thread: Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2025-11-25 15:07:12) > Purely means 100%. not 99.99999. > > Funnily, last time I had such conversation about bending the rules was > when the term "Debian Pure Blends" was coined, in a conversation about > whether Skolelinux could call itself "pure" without solving bug#311188. - Jonas ¹ https://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/2008/09/msg00004.html ² https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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