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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I'm going to be a bit out of the box here and recommend you consider using Arch Linux ARM instead. Obviously as a member of the Arch Linux project and maintainer of the calibre package I'm a bit biased, but Arch really is much easier with regard to this sort of dependency kerfuffle. And we provide always-up-to-date packages more or less immediately. |
Not wanting to go into a discussion about distributions, but of course, Arch has rolling releases which means that they can ship whatever is latest at the moment. This has advantages, but also disadvantages.
Debian has no rolling releases, thus packages transition into testing and sometimes there is a squeeze between packages in unstable and in testing due to API changes.
It is the user's pick, rolling release and being on the bleeding edge, or stable release management with security updates. I for myself on my development machine I use Debian/unstable = rolling release, but on my server, or a handheld device I would not want to have that - because I don't want to updated every day just to make sure that security bugs are fixed by new versions, and hopefully my applications still run with the new versions.