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throwaway2048 on Dec 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers...

Building debian packages from source definitely does not involve "randomly installing crap from around the internet".

The .sdeb format packages up sources and build scripts into one atomic, build-able unit.

Conan_Kudo on Dec 10, 2019 [–]

The only .sdeb archive format I know of is the one for debbuild[1]. Most Debian package build mechanisms don't have a source package archive format.

[1]: https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild

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