Quoting Holger Levsen (2026-03-02 17:05:57) > On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 11:07:29AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Yes, one notable non-Pure Debian Blend is debian-edu, due to bug#311188 > > and I continue to disagree with you on this since more than a decade and a > half :) > > and since (iirc) ten years Debian Edu only consists of packages in Debian main > of that same release, so Debian Edu is 100% pure Debian and AIUI a Debian Pure > Blend. > > #311188 is about upgrading packages and there are historically some probs > cause > we have made the packages doing configuration changes which only the > administrator > can made, thus those upgrades fail. And this, as you wrote almost 21 years ago > (I've looked at the bug now again, after all :) ...this is a violation of > Debian > policy, but (AIUI, not looking that up now) is not a violation of the Debian > Pure > Blends definition, as any Debian (Pure Blends or not) release will have > policy > violations. > > So AIUI Debian Edu is a Debian Pure Blend according to the definition you gave > in this very thread. :)
For the record: No, that is not an accurate summary of bug#311188. - Jonas -- * 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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