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Whereas I just left Debian-based distros because I'm hitting that exact problem with backported patches not arriving in any reasonable length of time in many packages. There seems to be a real manpower problem over at Debian in terms of maintainers.

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I definitely feel like I'm hearing this about debian and it manifests worry, because I sense if we don't consolidate so many parallel oss volunteer based projects soon, we could lose a lot of valuable work to rot and collapse. but who would even undertake that survey and proposal process.

I do wish our line of work would formalize into an international guilds so apprentices help learn to maintain this stuff on their way to becoming "journeymen", somehow.

The real problem is an application distribution paradigm that relies on unpaid third party maintainers just to get up to date software.

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