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Removing Guix from Debian


As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available [...]

Any time you run a piece of software through processes outside of the primary development workflow, you find surprises worth fixing." Even so, that will not provide stable branches for Debian and other distributions to pull from; it will just shorten the interval and feature differences between major releases. For example, the bookworm release has been out for more than two years, but a search of the Debian bug database only shows one package— guix —that has the "RM" tag in the subject to flag a package for removal.

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