On 15/08/2015 22:19, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all
> the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most
> brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for quality control,
> package uniformity, license auditing, and of course. the most robust
> dependency management, at least among binary distributions.

And their package management features:

- no way to have several versions of the same package installed on
your machine
- no atomic upgrades for single binary packages: if you have stuff
running during an upgrade, things can break.
- no possibility to rollback.

I'm sure there's a lot of good to say about the way Debian does
things, but quality of their package management isn't a part of it.
When you're running production servers and need reliability when
upgrading software, you just can't use Debian. And that is sad.

--
Laurent