I would be willing to help with this idea. Who would I contact? I'd need
to learn the process so I could help automate it.

Rod

On 12/7/21 3:16 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if building Devuan can be further automated. Void Linux has
> some super-duper software processes to do much of this automatically.
> It works right off of a git server (unfortunately, github). If I'm not
> mistaken it puts out two updates a day, but of course there's no
> automatic updating so the user chooses when to do all the updates up to
> current. With very few people, Void Linux manages to keep a very
> complete distro with very few screwups, and they fix major security
> flaws about as fast as Debian.
>
> I'm wondering if Devuan could make use of something similar. Perhaps
> doing this would free up resources to Devuanize more packages, for less
> dependency on Debian.
>
> Before you ask, no, I can't help. I'm indexing my new book, I'm making
> provisions so programs written in Freepascal, C, and pretty much any
> other language, can send a sine wave to the speakers (a capability
> requiring waaaaay too much programming in Linux). Of course I'll
> release it as Free Software.
>
> The Debian "Community" is getting more rotten every day. Just today on
> Debian-User, somebody asked a maybe sorta dumb question, and several
> people gleefully jumped all over him. One guy (not the OP) thanked
> everybody for their diverse solutions, and then criticized the OP,
> signing his email "With kindest regards" :-). Another guy managed to
> bring the OP's advanced age into it. So it's not just their politicians
> with their rigged GRs, it's the very citizenry of Debian itself. In the
> long run it's probably going to be advantageous for Devuan to move more
> toward a distro of its own, before the Debian crowd decide to put in
> halloween code to sabotage Devuan.
>
> SteveT
>
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