Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Is there a strict distinction between a non-Pure Debian Blend and a Debian Derivative? Is it that a non-Pure Debian Blend generally follows Debian policies, and a Debian Derivative is "more" different? /Simon
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